Facing Reality

So many others have suffered infinitely more than I. I almost feel guilty to acknowledge any pain in my life as, comparatively, my challenges must be small. But that is the point. Trouble is not [...]

Why do we act so surprised? Life on this celestial ball is so short lived…less than a blink of God’s eye. I lost a couple of family members in the last couple of months, both about my age. Of [...]

There I was again – in an all-too-familiar situation in which I find myself so often since moving to another town. Instead of being in a suburb south of the main state capital, I am now north and [...]

I would like to suggest that someone being at the top, in charge, overseeing, is a natural phenomenon. It occurs throughout life in all kinds of situations. We see a whole lot of vying or [...]

She never existed at all. I used to have a keychain that was engraved with “Super Mom.” I’m not sure if one of my kids gave it to me, but however I came by it, it was what I aspired to be. Super [...]

(I originally wrote this piece on October 8, 2015 – but I never published it until now …) Five years ago my mirror shattered. Anyone who has ever been truly loved—or who has deeply [...]

I have a good imagination, but I never could have imagined this day. My “little” sister Anita is sitting in a chemo infusion lab getting the 9th treatment of a prescribed 16. I had never heard of [...]

Dropping into people’s lives … especially when I’ve flown in there, shifts my reality. Everything from home seems dim. Instead I’m knee deep in the intricacies of the lives of those I’m [...]

Some medical folks should put out a list of the conditions that begin to appear in people as they age, starting with vision at age 40. If I did not have siblings from the same parents, I would [...]

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