This is about getting to be enough - so I'll do this one more and then quit for now and come back to it later. You Don't Love Me and...

On the other hand.... if they really are doing something that proves they couldn't possibly love you - what then? How do you know for su...

Maybe instead of jumping to the conclusion that they don't love us and they never did, we could just ask for what we want and mention th...

A long time ago when my dear friend, Brad, was still alive, I called him and he answered the phone in a terribly grumpy voice. I said that ...

When I was a kid one of the things I loved was my mother's habit of growing old-fashioned flowers in the summer. We had whole gardens of...

My outlook seems to be sliding right smack into the negative. Most of what I've written lately seems to either be rants about stuff I s...

Guess what! I read an article in Psychology Today that cites recent research regarding why men judge women on the basis of their looks (plus...

Okay, now I'm REALLY upset. Am I the only old person that remembers Brown vs. the Board of Education? I was a kid when the Supreme Cou...

Rebecca and I went to the zoo when it was raining off and on. A lot of the animals were asleep. A couple of male chimps were standing in t...

Some things I really miss: Having somebody I love incredibly much around every day to hug and kiss. I kissed Ron on the top of his head eve...

The best thing about being a woman is the built-in desire to love and nurture. I love that in myself and other women. Even though I'm ba...

Losing a loving partner is a bunch of losses - not just one. My dear friend Joanie told me after her husband died that when she was missing...

I guess it must just be terribly impractical or someone would have done it by now. But I would like to see someone try. Or at least talk abo...

I am so confused. It's one of those times when the true motives of the decision-makers in government are out of my realm of thinking. He...

I used to be equally afraid of physical pain and emotional pain. Both scared me to an extreme. I learned - I think from reading about natu...

I had a really tough civics teacher. Her name was Mrs. Hisaw and she was incredibly mean. Every kid in her classes was terrorized including ...

I just finished reading "Stumbling on Happiness" by Daniel Gilbert, which is a serious study of what makes people happy. It seems ...

I finally have to admit that I'm experiencing loneliness. For the first year and a half after Ron's death, I didn't really have...

I'm not sure why I've developed an interest in this. It seems frivolous on the one hand and important on the other. Why are some peo...

Springtime in the Ozarks weekend. We were married there and went back every year to celebrate. Last year the weekend was very hard. We looke...