I've been puzzling for days over Mike Huckabee's comment that Democrats are trying to make women think we need the help of the gover...

Sometimes my mental censorship is a good thing.  Sometimes it's not.  A lot of what I think is not necessarily a good thing to share.  I...

I recently had a conversation with a friend who was very upset with a couple of people whom she's close to in her life.  Being a very ta...

I was taught that a "good person" always put other people ahead of him/herself.  Of course, I was also taught that this was suppos...

Snow days weren't a big deal when I was a kid.  Unless there was a sheet of ice on the roads, we just carried on.  Since I was an only c...

The closing that's read at the end of one of the recovery program meetings I attend contains the above sentence.  I love it because of i...

Eeew!  A very creepy phrase: solicitous domination." I read this in a recent reading in one of my meditation books.  It was referring t...

I've been listening to Oprah and Deepak Chopra's 21 day meditation challenge.  One of the recent ones reminded me of some old, old l...

Periodically I read back through my journals.  I've been journaling pretty much every day since 1996 so I have piles of them.  (I've...

I am so amazingly powerless.  I thought that was a terrible thing when I first admitted it. Turns out it's just the first step to real...

I am pretty sure that surrender to God's will was the first thing I did in recovery.  I didn't know what that even meant since I did...

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."   Abraham Lincoln I for sure thought that happiness was not ...

I never used to think about whether I loved my country or not.  I knew that I was supposed to, but I never really thought about it one way o...

Sometime in 1995 I listened to some CDs in the car that were recordings of a class a gal taught on how to work the 12 Steps on just our spir...

I've been taught that expectations are premeditated resentments.  Reality is that I am a terrible predictor of the future - which is whe...

Some of the stuff I used to believe I just picked up unconsciously from the culture (media, etc.) and some was taught to me (parents, school...

After learning to take care of myself physically and emotionally, my spiritual mother began to teach me about other people and how to be in ...

By the time I had reached recovery, guilt was my middle name.  I felt like a total failure at everything.  I especially felt terrible about ...

When I first read about "outgrowing fear," I thought it was a crazy idea.  I believed that fear was more or less an instinct and h...

I dreamed last night that my dearly departed husband had left me for another woman.  I was devastated and tried to talk him into coming back...