Image credit: Photo by LuluP on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I'm pretty certain that everyone who passed my daughter Janie's elementary school at dismissal time a few weeks ago now knows me by sight. Yep, I'm that woman whose daughter threw a tantrum so gigantic and so spectacular that it took us over a [...]
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Doesn’t Work Well with Others
Image credit: Photo by nickwheeleroz on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A big red C. There it was, heartbreakingly plastered on the front of the report I had worked for weeks on. I had painstakingly drawn a wombat on the special mottled pastel paper, neatly stenciled the title ("All About Wombats"), and enclosed it, along [...]
I’m So Totally Fixed (Almost)
Image credit: Photo by misterbisson on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons For the past several months, I have been working the 12 Steps around my own codependency, and this week, I completed Step 12. You may think that I am typing this post out for you to read, using my human arms and hands, but [...]
The Moral of the Story
I've found that Life likes to pound me over the head again and again with the same lesson until I get it. It's sort of reassuring; there are no real mistakes, because I know I'm always going to get a chance to work the problem again. I'm finding that working the 12 Steps has given [...]
