Image credit: Photo by jam343 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I first started blogging, a little over two years ago, "God" was not part of my spirituality. The word still smacked of the old school God of my youth: that wrathful, angry-looking old white guy on the Sistine Chapel roof. I was hated [...]
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What Are You Going to Do Now?
Image credit: Photo by Frank Peters on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I shared in a meeting recently about my fear around my husband's business trips and how that fear is a reminder to me to connect with my Higher Power. After the meeting a newcomer asked me what I'm going to do now: I [...]
Business Trip Phobia
Image credit: Photo by sweetteaindahouse on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I fear business trips. But it's not my own business trips I fear — as a mom who left corporate work behind some nine years ago, I don't get those myself anymore — it's my husband's. When Mark was active in his sex addiction, [...]
The Little Bird
Image credit: Photo by nosha on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I don't remember how it was I first noticed the little bird huddled at the edge of the sidewalk. Did I hear it cheep or see a faint movement? But there it was: a little chick that had fallen out of a nest somewhere. [...]
Recovery is Sexy
Image credit: Photo by Eternal ☼ Sunshine on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons It was raining the night I first kissed my husband. The wind was hissing and howling through the bare branches of the trees, rattling the last of the dead leaves still clinging to their posts. Before we kissed, we twined our hands [...]
Codie Dreams of Healing
Image credit: Art by nflorence2012 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My subconscious has been spinning up lovely blog posts for me lately. Having held the mirror up to my own self-doubt, it decided to move on to my magical power to heal others. In the dream, I was out at a restaurant with a [...]
I Only Have Five Minutes
Image credit: Art by badboy69 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Today, I ran into a situation that would have caused me enormous frustration in the past. I'd finished my work around the house, I'd eaten my lunch, I'd even written a blog post about how I couldn't write a blog post and I was [...]
Finding Beautiful
Image credit: Photo by litmuse on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When Mark and I were at the very beginning of our relationship, moving from a flirtatious friendship into love, he signed off some early little love note "a thousand ships for my beautiful." Now who was I to resist a suave Helen of Troy [...]
The Wisdom to Know the Difference
Image credit: Photo by Ron Layters on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A month or so ago, I did something I dread and despise: I took a trip on an airplane. When I fly, the joy is entirely in the destination and not at all in the journey. The flight fills me with terror: terror [...]
I’m One of Those People
Image credit: Photo by Sarah and Mike ...probably on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Before my first child was born, I swore to friends and family members that I wasn't going to be one of those people. You know the kind. The ones who would pull out pictures of their newborn and expect me to [...]
