I attended a meeting last week that was on anger.  I was almost the last one to say anything and the meeting was large so I had a long time ...

Okay.  I've had it with Emily.  She is depressed and cranky.  I'll check with my friend, Karen, who says she has the world's bes...

I've embarked on several "30 day challenges" that are ideas for bumping up quality of life.  I love poetry but rarely read it ...

I can't remember how I ran across Geneen Roth's books.  But the more I read the more I learned.  I don't believe I'm technic...

I started college after I was an adult - almost forty to be exact.  One of my first teachers was a guy with a unique teaching style.  He tau...

I didn't name my cat - he came with that name.  He doesn't answer to it so he probably doesn't regard it as his name.  I call hi...

Pictures of my bouquets followed by a picture of Beverly and a friend whose name I do not know.  Beverly annoys me with how good she constan...

In my recovery program we are taught to pray for God's will and the power to carry it out (and pray for nothing else).  I do that every ...

I really miss being in the habit of taking a picture every day.  That habit helped me look around me every day to find something worth takin...

In Oklahoma when the drought ends, it's not with a gentle rain.  It started on Saturday with high winds, hail and power outages and cont...

I've been watching the stock market go nuts.  Since I don't invest in the stock market because I think it's just about guessing ...

A short, but typically Oklahoma thunderstorm came through just as my friend and I finished eating all we could at Golden Corral (I want to m...

It's over 110 today.  It was 117 Wednesday of last week.  I've taken to skipping my morning chores and dashing out the door before 8...

I think I will write a book with the above title.  It will, of course, be only for women.  I don't think men would relate.  I know from ...

I spent yesterday reading back through my journal beginning in January 2011 through July 2011.  It really was a daylong process - my rear en...

Montana golden rod.  Smells as pretty as it looks. Motel in Billings, Montana.  Flew into Billings because there are no airports anywhere ne...

Twice I've been able to go see my dear friend in Montana since he moved there.  Each time it's been a joy to catch up with him and k...

One of the many times I've been in counseling, the counselor said my greatest problem was that I was "gullible."  In other wor...

My youngest adopted daughter and my foster son have been living in small group homes in the community for 20 years now (since they left Hiss...

I've just passed my 70th birthday and my 28th sobriety birthday!  I owe thanks to many, many, many people and God for these celebrations...