I started this blog over four years ago because I had a story I wanted to tell about those few years when my life changed: when my son was born, when I discovered my husband's addiction, when my son was diagnosed with autism, when my daughter was born. And I feel that most of what [...]

After far too much frustrating time fighting the complexities of WordPress, I am moving back to the much simpler, more user-friendly Blogspot platform. This transition should all work seamlessly -- no updates to any subscriptions or bookmarks will be required. However, there is some chance the site content will be temporarily unavailable. If so, don't [...]

I think comments and feed are working again now. Let me know if you have problems. Of course, now I've brought back the problem I was trying to fix in the first place, but I will have to work on that another time!

When talking about my own codependency, one of my favorite tongue-in-cheek lines (which came out of a recovery group I'm in) is: "I'll work harder!  I'll do better!  Please love me!"  Whether I forgot a birthday, miss a deadline, stick my foot squarely into my mouth (or sometimes my keyboard, as the case may be) [...]

Image credit: Photo by jcoterhals on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons After posting almost daily for over two years, I have taken my longest ever break from my space here.  I have posted a few things recently at The Second Road, but have yet to link to them from here.  I just figured I'd pop [...]

Somewhere, in my recent adventures around the Internet, I came across that iconic image of Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy's assassin (well, unless you believe in conspiracy theories), being assassinated himself.  Kennedy was not assassinated in my lifetime, so the first time I saw Oswald's image was in an encyclopedia (anyone remember those?).  I may have [...]

Image credit: Photo by Vu Bui on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Wind lashes the trees. The water churns angry white. I can't let this be. Sacrifice a goat. Strike a deal with the unseen. Beg storms for respite. I'm too busy to board windows, batten hatches or leave the storm's path. Against all my [...]

My coat's a blanket. My love, sleeping on a bus; blue wool breathes with him. Lying on the seat soft hair brushes the collar tucked under his chin. I want to paint him; freeze him, lips blue under ice; encase him in glass. He may wake sighing. Worries -- gone in sleep -- descend all [...]

Image credit: Photo by WolfS♡ul on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I was little, my Brownie troop went to visit a home for children with disabilities. I got the impression that somehow all of us normal kids in our spiffy uniforms were somehow supposed to cheer their lonesome lives. At some point in the [...]