This week I learned about different communication styles and have been fascinated by the concept. There are 4 different categories of this grouping. Two subgroups of people are “asking styles” and will ask questions to help them understand. Two other subgroups of people are “telling styles” who will talk TO you to help YOU […]
Last week, in writing about the fun of my oldest son’s wedding, I alluded to the fact that my oldest daughter was not present and not invited. Yes, it is true, she was not invited.
Sometimes life feels like we are all on a chessboard of life, being spiritually urged by both sides, as shown […]
We all have “To Do” lists. Some of us make written lists…that would be my husband. I see them by his computer or on the kitchen counter before he goes hiking. He carefully makes his list and he loves to cross off the items. Yesterday, we were out grocery shopping for just a few […]
This weekend I am “in a good place” emotionally. This last month has been cathartic in terms of writing the story to my daughter and sending it off a week ago. Enough time has gone by that if she checks her mailbox, I would expect she has received it. I think that curiosity might […]
I finished this allegory for my daughter, as shown below. The first part of the story is in the last blog post.
I plan to print the story and send it to her apartment. I hope she checks her mail. I hope that she will read the dedication to her, understand in reading this story that […]
Our family has been dealing with my daughter’s dysfunctional behavior for a decade now, since her 6th grade year.
I started weaving my grief quilt that summer after 6th grade. That first quilt square was really more of worry than of grief. There were a few dark threads of concern but most of […]
It has been some months since I have posted. Various topics have rattled around in my head however they have failed to flow through my fingers to my computer keyboard.
It is somewhat challenging to pick up again however there is a restless creative side of me that is happiest when I am writing regularly. […]
A friend and I took my 15 month old granddaughter to a portrait/photo session at a nearby baby store. The friend…a young woman…used to work in the baby store, knew the photographer and introduced me as the “birth mother’s mom” of my granddaughter. It was the first that I had thought about that terminology […]
One of the silver linings of journaling my thoughts in this blog is that it makes me actively look for little moments of beauty, of joy, of delight, of thankfulness for those blessings in my life that in past easier years I might have overlooked. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I found some colorful […]
I missed posting a blog last weekend. Usually it is my “sort my feelings, clear my head” time and I look forward to those writing sessions as my own little oasis of peace, free from the distractions of life and work. Last weekend though, I chose to give up the writing time to clean […]
