By Sue Pearson The diamond wedding ring dazzled and defined me. Or so I thought. It was big – four carats --an extravagant display to show the world who I was. I was spoken for. I was wanted. I was desired. I was loved and even cherished. I was settled. I was happy....
By José Lorenzo (This content contains an interaction which may be disturbing to some.) Common sense tells us that if we don't defend ourselves, we can get hurt, but that wasn't my experience the day a person managed to violently break into my house in the middle of...
By John Ruiz Was it the dementia or the power of her right mind that healed her? I only know my darling wife got rid of a mountain of shame and guilt from her earlier life after asking for divine help. My bride, Jacqueline, began having symptoms of dementia in 2014,...
By Bryan Hebert Just before getting off work yesterday, I received a text that my mom had been hospitalized. This was the third time in the last few weeks because of complications suffered after a head injury from a fall she had recently. I was fearful, anxious, and...
By Margaret Pengelly I love my three boys dearly and equally but when one of them came home from university for the summer to earn some money for his next year I was worried. He and I tended to butt heads a fair bit and this was uncomfortable for both of us. I was...
By Lynda Hadley For many years I held a grievance toward my son-in-law. I won’t go into all the egoic reasons other than I saw him as responsible for causing stress and anxiety in my daughter that had never appeared until they got together in their teenage years....
By Anonymous Like many people, I’ve had to deal with difficult relationships along my journey. The worst of these has been with my aunt - who seemed to challenge the peace of everyone around her. I didn’t just want to walk away. I wanted us both to find peace and with...
By Lynn Robin Miller The final scene of my mother’s life is scorched into my psyche. My younger brother leaning over my mother’s hospital bed—her death bed—water from his glass spilling over her semi-paralyzed body all the while begging our stunned relatives for money...
By Derek I'm not proud to admit it, but I'm a penny-pincher. You know the type. I'm the guy that sweats bullets in the summer to keep my AC bill low, only to later pile on layers of clothing in the winter to save on heating. So, you can only imagine the anxiety I felt...
By Sue Pearson I like to imagine that in the two hours before his death, my brother’s colorful, silent friends came to see him and pay their respects. A school of Sargeant Majors with their distinctive horizontal black stripes would have swooped in close to his mask...
By SVP I didn’t think I could last much longer without taking a breath. I was tumbling, churning, with no control over my body. I was underwater in a riptide with waves pulling at me like pit bulls with locked jaws. I was in full panic. I am drowning. Somehow the...
Anonymous My adult son and I had a misunderstanding, but neither of us realized it. He thought that I knew all the details of a trip he arranged for his family to come to the city where I live. He thought he told me everything I’d need to know about their visit. He...
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