Image by: catdancing on Flickr Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 After really struggling last week between my need to sleep and my desire not to sleep, I decided that this week on my day of spirituality I would spend one day throwing out my to do list and letting go of all the things I [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2009’
A Very Codependent Christmas
Image credit: Photo by Jon Curnow on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Last night my husband Mark and I stayed up past midnight finalizing the details of our Christmas budget and to do list. We divided up the errands and agreed on which of us would buy for whom and how much money we would [...]
Acting As If
Image credit: Photo by Alli' Cat' on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Someone I grew up with drank (still drinks) a lot. And over the years, I've struggled with her alcohol use. Year after year, the incidents around her drinking have piled up. There was the time she was laid off and spent the next [...]
Late Fall Haiku
Crow on a dead branch cawing at the steel grey sky. Winter's nearly here.
The Long-Awaited Tiger Woods Post
Image credit: Photo by Stefano A on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "Is Tiger Woods a sex addict?" "What do you think about Tiger?" "Aren't you going to write about Tiger Woods?" The questions have been peppering my inbox, but I've been avoiding the topic. On the one hand, I love a good celebrity sex [...]
Just for Today Challenge (A Little Late)
Image by: catdancing on Flickr Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 I had planned to post this on Tuesday, but it turned out to be a completely crazy day, and of course, yesterday was my day of rest. This week I focused on sleep (and fighting with God). The day started out badly. I accidentally ate [...]
Parenting 101
Image credit: Photo by -Gerol on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons If you have kids, or if you're planning to have kids, or if you know people who have kids and know you'd do it better, you should listen up today, because I am going to do something I rarely do: tell you all how [...]
Orchid Children
Image credit: Photo by Te55 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons One thing most addicts have in common is a history of childhood abuse or neglect. According to research by sex addiction expert Patrick Carnes, 81% of sex addicts were sexually abused as children and 97% were physically and/or emotionally abused or neglected. But quote [...]
Oprah, Dr. Drew and Me
Image credit: Photo by Thomas Hawk on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Several people have asked me if I watched Oprah's show on sex addiction last Monday. The answer is "sort of." I don't watch Oprah much, and apparently Oprah likes it that way. I missed episode, and while there are clips on YouTube, I [...]
The Fall of a Sparrow
Image credit: Photo by Ashley Dinges on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I don't want to get up and I don't want to go to school!" my daughter Janie yelled when she heard me chime "Time to get up!" this morning. ("Well, maybe tonight you will go to sleep on time so you won't be [...]
