I’m never going to have a happy childhood. And guess what? If you didn’t have one, you aren’t going to have one either. If you were abused, betrayed, abandoned, beaten, ignored or set aside so your parent(s) could tend to a terminally ill sibling that’s what you got. It sucks. But that’s what we had. As adults we have two choices about what we can do now. We can wallow in our pain and become a victim, blaming the world or our partner for our loss, and trying to recreate …

“I’ve got to have this or I’ll just die!“ she wailed. For ten minutes this seven-year old grabbed things off the shelves at Target and repeatedly, almost non-stop, said, ”I’ve got to have this or I’ll just die. I’ve got to have THIS or I’ll die.“ She only stopped long enough to look at her mother with her hands on her hips and demand, ”Do you WANT me to die? Don’t you understand I’ll just die if I don’t get this?!“ I couldn’t stop laughing, so I turned and …

“True Life is lived when tiny choices are made. Tiny choices mean tiny changes. But it is only with infinitesimal change, changes so small no one even realizes you’re making them, that you have any hope for transformation” ~ Leo Tolstoy ”

My life totally changed when I realized everything I did, everything I said, or every way I acted was a choice. When I stopped saying, “I have to go to work,” and acknowledged that “I choose to go to work, because I choose eating over not eating, I choose …

There’s a big push on the internet to give things away - content, music, services. It’s creating a trend where people are beginning to get angry when they’re expected to pay for something…Somewhere along the line the meaning of that old saying that, ”There’s no such thing as a free lunch,“ was lost.
As a writer, artist, and designer I give away a lot of time, information, help and advice. LOVE doing it - most of the time. I say most of the time because a lot of people have made …