It’s extraordinary how much influence our family-of-origin can have on us far into our adulthood. Of course, this influence can be nurturing or toxic. There’s been much said about the effects of bad mothering on the child. This led to a generation (or more) of mothers obsessed with doing the …
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Dear Tchaikovsky…
"Dear Tchaikovsky, we have become best friends..." the facebook post simply read, and it moved me to tears. The status update was made by my friend's teenage daughter who has recently begun her freshman year in an out-of-state college, over 300 miles away from home. She went there alone, two …
Start With A Vision
Sometimes I'm not a nice person. When I'm on auto pilot, I call people ugly. I really get a rush out of swearing, particularly when my husband is around because it really irritates him. I'm a hothead and I like to yell and slam doors. I've lied to friends, cheated at games and when I was …
