The Healing Pen
It was a recent conversation with a fellow writer about the healing power of writing that made me rethink the project I have been working...
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Twenty-One Anniversaries or New Year, Same Me
In the first couple of years of our marriage, he explained his depression began in January and lasted through June. He’d been in counseling
The Watermelon in Her Grandfather's Eye
In August 2008, after another fun-filled day at the office processing personal injury claims, I was driving home from Raleigh when a...
What They Don't Tell You About Four-Year Old Boys...Or What I've Forgotten About Four Year O
Four-year-old boys say “Good Morning, Grandma” with such conviction and a sweet smile, you see no wrong happening in your day,...
The Interview, Part 2
Every relationship has an “aha” moment, a pivotal moment, the type of moment that can crush you or move you on to the next level. For my...
The Announcement
Last month after a special lunch with my Dad, my daughter and my son-in-law, I got the surprise of my life. My daughter Megan and...
My First Interview
https://acceptyourgifts.podbean.com Listen to my first interview about my marriage to a combat veteran with PTSD, how we managed our...
“Fermata”
I didn’t know how much I loved him, until I almost lost him. One thing about Facebook posts. The “Memories” feature is a reminder of...
Self-Help
SELF CARE. That day you realize your post-traumatic stress syndrome veteran has recovered and you are struggling. As the wife of a PTSD...
Righting Wrongs
"I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is...
Systemic Racism - My Veteran's Perspective
On the eve of Martin Luther King Day when most of us are just happy to have a three day break from work, many of us are looking back at a...
The Price - My Veterans Day Tribute to My Dad
Excerpt from: Train’s Coming: Our Struggle with PTSD Chapter IV. “I Don’t Have PTSD, PTSD Has Me…” I knew nothing about Post...
Regalitos (little gifts)
I don't pretend to understand poetry. But, I love when a writer, a poet, puts words together that talk to me and, on occasion, talk back...
"Some days what seems easy, is just not."
My day can begin in one of several ways: a. A call from an initial consult (not a client) who needs an attorney in two hours for a...
Nombre De Dios
September 14, 2017 They are almost home. I received a text this morning at 4:21am, "Get our way to FL…Nombre De Dios." Mom has arthritis...
The Documentary
There was no way we were not going to watch it. I posted the date of the premier on my calendar so I would remember to set the DVR. The...
Mea Culpa
It was supposed to be a holiday of healing. Healing from the election results a few weeks before. Healing from the shock of a nation's...
Giana
You came on the winds of the approaching holocaust. Precious new life given , While the elements took thousands in return. Thankful for...