Many of us, because of a critical illness, suicidal depression or life threatening accident, have been faced with having to recommit to life to go on living. Sometimes the road back is long and arduous. It raises questions about God and faith, the engine behind achievement, and the persistence of love, divine and human. What [...]
(read more...)August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment
“All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that [...]
(read more...)August 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
Part 1
This is what ran through my 12 year old mind every day. I was a bad girl & needed to be punished. That kind of sounds like some S & M crap now but back then it was me, my life, who I was & would always be.
It was early in the morning & [...]
July 30, 2008 | 5 Comments
The College Application Process
http://college-careers.blogspot.com/2008/07/college-application-process.html
This is the third in a series that I have been posting this week regarding College Admissions and things to consider as you prepare for College….Enjoy!
The senior year of high school is a year of wonder and experiences. For many, it is also a year of fear and anticipation, especially in regard to the mystical [...]
July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Why can`t husbands find what they are looking for and it is right in front of them? Why do cats eat out of the food bag instead of their food dish and its the same damn stuff? Why do animals drink out of the toilet instead of their water bowls even thou you change it [...]
(read more...)July 17, 2008 | 4 Comments
I’ve posted at my wornoutwoman site requesting some advice on what to do when traveling with little ones via plane. I am leaving Friday for a long flight, and am slightly apprehensive. Not only because my son is crying already b/c he doesn’t want to leave Nana, but because the last flight we [...]
(read more...)July 16, 2008 | 7 Comments
Time to rent the limousines and hit the town! Donna Chafin-Medica, who most of you know as dKaye , is bringing up the rear (stop laughing) for the From the Mouths of Babes column at Quirkee.com!
Donna is a southern gal living in New Jersey and has a 17 year-old son who apparently has a [...]
July 10, 2008 | 3 Comments
I returned home, July fourth, to find a disturbing…no, horrifying comment on one of my blogs. It informed me that a fellow Supernanny parent, had committed suicide. My heart sank into my stomach, as I read words that could not, in my mind, be possible. I had seem Scott Terrill’s episode of Supernanny. He seemed like a loving [...]
(read more...)July 8, 2008 | 4 Comments
“Not effort or
the absence of effort,
neither choice nor
the impossibility of choice,
neither self nor not self,
neither nothing nor something,
neither emptiness nor form,
neither unborn nor born,
the third thing…” - John Astin
The embrace of third alternative does not blot out any part of reality, or substitute it with a new shiny version - it very simply completes the [...]
(read more...)July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
There is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist saying: “When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries”.
What is death, exactly, and what does it mean to us as we are living? Throughout the world, death and the rituals that surround it are steeped in taboos. [...]
(read more...)June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments
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