If Step #1 to happiness is committing to totally honesty with yourself, then step #2 would have to be confronting the darkness. Unearthing all the pain, the hurt, the past you’ve ever survived. And you have survived. Pain, suffering, and trauma isn’t just something you experience. It’s what you survived. By default, this makes you […]
Happiness
“To be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to make you into everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” E.E. Cummings I have to ask, why do we keep choosing to fight this battle? Breathe in. And out. And smile. […]
Doctor Who? Doctor Who!: Half Way Through
Six re-generations down! Six to go! They’re called Zarbi not Zorgs. The Doctor Who Marco Polo Reconstruction Just found this little treasure! I can go back and watch the Highlander! Jamie is the scotsman who not only followed the Doctor from this arc on to Patrick’s regeneration into Jon Pertwee, but […]
Deadened to The Walking Dead
Today is Wednesday. For me, that means I slow down for the day and avoid all work. It seems weird to most that I would take a full day off every Wednesday, but it recently occurred to me, we don’t call it “Hump day” for nothing. I took the push out of hump day. The […]
Goodbye, Doctor (Peter Davison)
After Tom Baker, the time with Peter Davison just flew by.
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Unbroken
“I’m sorry. I have to end our commitment.” I run these words over and over in my head lately. I can’t stop replaying them. “It’s been a while since we last spoke.” I looked at William at my kitchen table. The afternoon Irish sun blazed through the open window. From here I could see the […]
Help! What Genre Do I Write?!
I know. I broke my own rules. I’m posting an article about writing on a reader’s website. Forgive me, dear reader. Humans are obsessed with labeling things. It’s part of our psychological makeup. Choke berry? Fatal. Blue berry? Safe. Fuzzy little rabbit? Safe. Saber tooth tiger with ferocious growl? Fatal. Sadly, this primitive need to […]
Breathe. Let go. Smile.
Mediation is the undoing of trauma. Yoga is mediation for your body. – Angela B. Chrysler I feel it. The end of my journey. The end. Something you never quite recognize until you can look back and see just how far you’ve come. Something you never quite recognize until you can look ahead and smile. […]