Tag: life
group name: womenwise
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June 01, 2006 09:56 PM EDT --
I don't talk about this much. To be honest, I never want to go back where I was that night and talking about it takes me down that road. Yet I know I have been somewhere that most people never go. . . . more
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March 30, 2006 08:10 AM EST --
A Middle Aged Women Looks At the Headlines
Sometimes I just want to scream.
Three days before I turn fifty
I wake to find a headline about
actresses entitled "50-ish and Hot".
Please . . . more
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April 23, 2006 05:55 AM EDT --
"To forgive points to an inward feeling, and suppose alienated affection; when we ask forgiveness, we primarily seek the removal of anger" - Merriam Webster Dictionary
Forgiveness is . . . more
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July 17, 2006 05:24 PM EDT --
In my mind, he was graduating high school on a football scholarship and enjoyed racing midget cars.
On my calendar, he was 13 weeks gestation.
In my womb, he'd stopped growing at 9 weeks and had . . . more
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August 29, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
I walked in
lacking expectation.
But there you were,
finally,
looking in my direction.
I needed to see into
your clouded window,
recognize who sits
on your dusty throne.
When our eyes met,
a . . . more
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May 03, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
Gypsy Girl . . . more
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April 06, 2006 08:21 AM EDT --
It's funny what an effect those words can have on you. I expect them from my daughters and my mom. It is understood. They had better miss me, or else!
I have never been one to cultivate many friendships, . . . more
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August 08, 2006 11:28 PM EDT --
I recieved this email from my very good friend ,who I love with all my heart. Never have I known her or any member of her family to be judgemental of a living soul. This is a family in Portland Oregon . . . more
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September 01, 2006 08:39 PM EDT --
I am feeling a little fragile.
I had been looking forward to this weekend for the past five days and had done everything I could to prepare for it. Even with the coming rain, I knew . . . more
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March 19, 2006 12:33 AM EST --
Thick vellum slices me
with its lovely calligraphic
curved smile, announcing in
self-important blue letters
that you and she have wed,
so casually you wed
"on Friday, the twenty-ninth of . . . more
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March 25, 2008 11:30 PM EDT --
If I walked
through burning sand
and rocky stone
barefoot and alone -
If I walked
through icy tundra
and winter storm
naked as my birth -
If I walked
through my pain
and did . . . more
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March 07, 2006 05:37 PM EST --
i always have cold feet. it makes sense - poor circulation, coupled with extremely low blood pressure (50s/40s). my husband and daughter are space heaters, especially when compared to me.
at night, i . . . more
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July 21, 2006 12:02 PM EDT --
Life is amazing with it's twists and turns. Just about the time we think we know who we are...just about the time we think we have it all figured out, something happens to remind us that we . . . more
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April 18, 2006 08:11 AM EDT --
I found an old journal this past weekend and made the painful choice to read through it. It is almost twenty years old, and it covers most of two years with a few pages of the years after. Those were some . . . more
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March 25, 2006 10:20 PM EST --
*our house
6 years ago we bought our first home. It is 79 years old and it shows. Over the years many, many owners have moved in and did what they thought was remodeling; I'll explain.
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July 19, 2008 12:44 PM EDT --
This week I walked past the age at which my mother died.
It feels as if my life just became my own.
more
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May 12, 2006 08:18 PM EDT --
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. --Tennessee Williams
The straw that breaks the camel's back comes at different times for each of us. For me it is . . . more
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July 08, 2006 04:31 PM EDT --
I turn 60 today. It's hard to believe! It seems like it wasn't that long ago
that I was in my 20's, just starting out the in the world as a young adult.
I want to share . . . more
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July 13, 2006 02:27 PM EDT --
"So, I'll call you tomorrow after I am coherent," she says.
"Are you ever coherent?" I retort.
"Not most of ever..." She was already losing coherence, due . . . more
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May 25, 2006 01:15 AM EDT --
I was 17 years old when I met my first husband. He loved me, wanted me, and made me feel special, loved and needed. When he proposed I accepted, and from that day we were an item and rarely went anywhere . . . more
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