Merry Christmas
For many people, Christmas is not merry. It is a time of anxiety and stress. It might even be a time of flashbacks and fear. For a few, there is a real danger to going home for the holidays. If abuse has not been disclosed,...
Lyme Life – Learning to Live
Lyme has taught me much about life. Long before I had a diagnosis, there were lessons about how to manage life with a body that doesn't cooperate. I guess they are some pretty universal truths. So, I'll share a few with you. I think a...
Beware the Patient Predator
I read a story yesterday that turned my stomach. A judge decreased a mandatory sentence for a child rapist by 15 years. He reasoned that his crime was not premeditated.Where is the justice? If he raped a three year old girl, he had to have thought...
Don’t Burn Your Bridges
When I was a kid my grandmother used to say, "Don't burn your bridges." I din't really know what she meant, but I remembered that saying.We have all kinds of bridges in our lives. Medicines can be a bridge to get health back or get...
Lyme Life – Assault
Most everyone gets colds every once in a while. When I get colds, it hits me a bit differently than the people around me. When my children were little and they got a cold, I would get really, down-for-the-count sick. I never understood it. All...
Out of Sorts?
Christmas is almost here and for many people that is enough of a deadline. For many people it is the week after that causes the anxiety. Closing business for the year, pulling in all the receipts, completing bookkeeping audits, and chasing those last few leads causes...
Do What You Can
When I started this blog with the new theme, I expected to be actively fighting sex trafficking. Having survived four years of living in my sneakers and child sexual abuse from toddlerhood, God has brought me so far; from uttermost to uttermost.Yesterday, I received a...
When I Fight With Everything
It's been one of those days. Every inanimate object is my enemy today. I haven't even seen any people yet; not even a digital interaction and I am frustrated and exhausted.I wake up in pain. That's just my life with Lyme, but some days it's...
3 Ways to Decide When Feelings Get in the Way
Feelings Lie. I often find myself saying things like, “I feel like I should…” or “I really feel it would be best to… “… do whatever.We make all kinds of decisions every day, but some are obviously big, life changing, long-term commitments. Should I quit my...
Giving Tuesday
In the whole hubbub about no shopping on Thanksgiving and Black Friday's obvious drawbacks, there are a few positive inventions. Small Business Saturday, which I thought would be good in the spring, is that Saturday after Thanksgiving. Then, there's Sale Sunday everywhere. Cyber Monday is...