The aging man lay next to the mature woman, his leg wrapped around hers, his arm lying over the top of her body with his fingers gently touching her thigh. She felt all the emotion of his thoughts as he breathed in and out. She was transported to a place she never known with another. ContinueContinue reading “Cancer: Battle With Lymphoma”
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Dancing Leaves
The old woman wrapped herself in the bearskin blanket, Shivering from cold within the rustic cabin in the woods. The Big Toothed Aspen rose loftily outside the window. Thinking of her childhood, her thoughts meandered. Leaves on the aspen danced theatrically with the wind, Her eyes twinkled with encounters she remembered. The wind, the leaves,ContinueContinue reading “Dancing Leaves”
Finding Me-gitimacy: Episode 1
What do I really see? Well, I have come a long way from where I began, but frequently. I see a program full of source code that reads like pre-installed crapware.
Finding Me-gitimacy: Episode 2
It IS my dream. MY dream. epiphany – a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. © 2016 Dictionary.com, LLC. A few months ago, in my broken state of being, I succumbed to staying at home and feelingContinueContinue reading “Finding Me-gitimacy: Episode 2”
Finding Me-gitimacy: Episode 3
Me-gitimacy pronunciation & definition: [mee-jit-uh-muh-see] – noun the state or quality of me deriving by reasoning, or concluding based on evidence that I am of genuine or authentic character. Back at the Beginning From the time each of us was born, we were taught by those around us. First our parents and siblings, next friends outside theContinueContinue reading “Finding Me-gitimacy: Episode 3”
The Rooftop Blanket of Darkness
Shame This is the first of a series of short stories explaining the difficulty I face in admitting the brokenness with which I was raised. I speak to the shame that has plagued society for generations, that of domestic violence. It is a human condition issue; no one is immune, and I believe eachContinueContinue reading “The Rooftop Blanket of Darkness”
Mindfulness
Allow the fear to be inside me, but not to control me
Too Scared to Leave
“Why do abused women stay?” one might ask. Walk into my past with me and try to understand one of the reasons I stayed with a violent husband for fifteen years. I became brainwashed that I was too stupid to support four children on my own. He warned me that he would get me firedContinueContinue reading “Too Scared to Leave”
Alonely
Most of her waking existence, the word “alonely” has been her reality. Yes you read that correctly, it’s not a typo. A-L-O-N-E-L-Y. It is a state of being she has inadvertently chosen, yet not completely felt comfortable wearing. Often encircled by wonderful friends, yet she is somehow absolutely by her…SELF. Alonely sings to her in throughout sleep and wakefulness. It hums the monotone song that she is missing something. StrangeContinueContinue reading “Alonely”
Eclectra 