And quickly. If you let it, grief could swallow you whole.
Was a man with whom she could join hands and build a life of trust, and honor and mutual respect. Could she really believe that such a life was possible? Opening
Short laugh. Time will tell with you and Bobby Pearlman,
She’d neglected to make choices for her inner self as well. She’d given away too much.
No more sorrow and regret! Take heart! A new day is beginning.
Love wasn’t hard, she thought. Losing love was.
Light helps define a place. Here the light has color. It changes throughout the day and it’s unpredictable.
I’m just saying there’s no excuse for a man to hit a woman. None. Period. But verbal beatings can be worse. More insidious, in that the scars aren’t visible. Words can be killers.
I accept that the mind often dictates the heart. Yet I believe that the heart is the truer guide. Was she
How ironic she thought, to store the past but never tend to it. ~ Mary June
Friendships were easy when life was going smoothly. What was hard was to be there for your friend when life got rough and the friendship was neither easy nor fun. The challenge was to forgive the frie...
Don’t be angry any longer! Cancer is eating away my body, but anger will eat away your soul. Don’t let it destroy your chance for happiness.
But now her children were grown-up and she felt every inch of the distance between them, stretching further over the years.
No time for dreams of what might have been. There were plans to be made. The beach house —and all the secrets it held— had to be placed in secure hands. Too much had been sacrificed for too many years...
True joy came from loved ones, not loved things. Knowing that helped her feel free.
Love was never a sin. Not loving, now that was the very worst kind of sin,
Wichita. The roads here are flat and I can see for miles. Easy driving. Times like these, I wish you were sitting here beside me chatting, instead
Today was the first day of summer, she realized, her spirits lifting like a kite. She loved milestones of any sort: birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, checks on the calendar, notches on a growth char...
They were specific about symptoms of grief—the sensations of choking, shortness of breath, feelings of emptiness, endless crying. But nothing warned her that when she wasn’t experiencing those symptom...
The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.