divorce

As a little girl, the "Find Waldo" series was one of my favorites. The idea of a man that could be lost so many times - in so many places - and that he needed me to find him both fascinated and intrigued me. No visit to the doctor's office or the dentist's office was complete until I found him on every page of every book.  Read More »

On December 11, 1995 a mother with high blood pressure is told her blood pressure has sky-rocketed and will not come down. She is sent to a bigger hospital where the doctors perform an emergency cesearean. Baby AJ was born two months premature and weighed only 2 lbs. Because of his size he is not capable of crying like a normal-sized baby. The mother is unable to touch or hold him.  Read More »

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

To answer your question, yes that is an over-emphasized exclamation of onomatopoeia, but I think it fits considering the “pandemonium” that is my life. It has been turned up side down then thrown from wall to wall and then beat on with a nice sized hammer, but in a kinda okay way I guess.  Read More »

My brother’s parents are divorced. We have a lot in common: we’re bother the same age (he’s 2 months and 2 days older than me), we both just graduated within the last month (him: May 22, while I graduated this past Saturday), and we both have a similar situation (his parents are divorced and remarried; my biological parents were never married and my mom married his dad in 1997).  Read More »

I did not expect to come up with a part 2 when I wrote the first one. However one friend from Iowa State, Dr. Jefferies made a comment on the first one on the lines of the following, what did the people who marriage did not work do.  Read More »

How many people actually kept a long relationship with somebody while they were in middle school or highschool?  Read More »

Dear Mother,

I hear stories every now and then. Stories of children abused by their parents. Stories of parents being crack addicts or ignoring their kids or not understanding their kids. I thank God that I don't have that situation.

Then I remember you.  Read More »

We've all felt compelled to say the "L" word at one time or another, but does it really mean? What is love? It is often defined as caring for another person, thing,etc. but it can also be defined as........  Read More »