Image credit: Photo by c@rljones on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I first discovered my husband's addiction, I knew I was going to need healing from the pain and devastation I was facing, so I looked for support groups for partners. But I couldn't seem to find plain old support; all I could find [...]
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Isolation
Image credit: Photo by H@Ru on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I feel very comfortable in written words, in the virtual world, but relating to people face-to-face has always been more difficult for me. I'm an introvert (meaning that time around people drains me, even when I enjoy it) and although no longer noticeably shy, [...]
Human Habitrail Redux
Image credit: Photo by Sam Pullara on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Six months ago, my family spent an evening at an indoor play area with an overhead play structure that was a labyrinth of plastic tunnels ending in a slide. At the time, my son Austen was eager to climb up and try the [...]
Hobbling Toward Humility
Image credit: Photo by [desta] on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I was a child, my mother used to drag me off to church every Sunday. Oh, how I hated it, and I told her so. "I hated going to church when I was little too," she told me, "But then, when I was [...]
Walking the Crooked Path of Dread
Way back a year and a half ago, I entered a contest to win a copy of the book Momma Zen by Karen Maezen Miller. I had never heard of the book, so I based my decision on the following factors: It was a free book. The title had both Momma and Zen in it, [...]
Dry Codie
Image credit: Photo by Vu Bui on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Many years ago, I was in a relationship that was extremely dysfunctional and unhealthy for me; so much so that my marriage to a sex addict has always (even at its absolute worst) seemed to me to be healthy by comparison. In that [...]
Moving on the Path
Image credit: Photo by dhammza on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few weeks ago, I volunteered to act as secretary for my 12 Step group. However, after just one meeting in my new role, I contracted the raging, beastly stomach flu direct from the bowels of Satan and had to hand the secretary duties [...]
Safe from the Rain
Image credit: Photo by (((((i))))) (((((see))))) (((((you))))) on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few months ago, my husband and I sat in our car in an empty parking lot. We'd gotten the kids settled with a babysitter, although it had taken longer than usual, and had driven to a place we knew we could [...]
Words on the Bathroom Wall
Image credit: Photo by Malingering on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons The women's restroom in the basement of the Student Union was everything I dreamed college would be. The first time I used it, taking a tour of campus before my freshman year, I fell in love. At a glance, there wasn't much to love: [...]
Haikus for a Friend in the Parking Lot
Image credit: Photo by Andreas_MB on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons After the meeting waiting for Mark to come out, I saw a good friend. I think to myself, "It's quite a coincidence seeing David here." "What are the chances that we're here on a weeknight in the same church lot?" But then it hit [...]
