Just Weighing ⁓ Traumatic Blessings
Seeking post-traumatic growth?
Is positive growth possible from traumatic experiences such as accidents, catastrophes, illnesses, & other major
stressors? Are hidden disasters lurking in seemingly wonderful and joyous moments?
Life is a series of surprises flowing in all directions: chaos out of order and order within chaos.

Just a Little Too American
I seem to remember writing this shortly after The Lost Vodka Infusion, upon return from a trip to her parent's home where her family and friends joked about race and...
Just a Little Too American
I seem to remember writing this shortly after The Lost Vodka Infusion, upon return from a trip to her parent's home where her family and friends joked about race and...

PATRICIDE IN ABSENTIA
I miss my dad. Not that whole dewy-eyed, sentimental, made-For-TV kind of miss him. Not Disney or sitcoms or the hero of the story whose kids all adore him.
PATRICIDE IN ABSENTIA
I miss my dad. Not that whole dewy-eyed, sentimental, made-For-TV kind of miss him. Not Disney or sitcoms or the hero of the story whose kids all adore him.

On October 24, 1997 my stepson hung himself fro...
I found him, lips purple, body still as an empty shoe. He hung, a horror sculpture, motionless, silent. I'm pretty sure that his neck was broken, blue-black
On October 24, 1997 my stepson hung himself fro...
I found him, lips purple, body still as an empty shoe. He hung, a horror sculpture, motionless, silent. I'm pretty sure that his neck was broken, blue-black

Death of a Poet ~ Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver died. And while I had heard of her, And her work, At the time, I hadn’t bothered quite yet To read much of her.
Death of a Poet ~ Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver died. And while I had heard of her, And her work, At the time, I hadn’t bothered quite yet To read much of her.

Friendship Fail
Always felt to me Situational and that she based a desire to be friends On her belief that maybe I could do something for her, Something that would advance her...
Friendship Fail
Always felt to me Situational and that she based a desire to be friends On her belief that maybe I could do something for her, Something that would advance her...
