"R-E-S-P-E-C-T  Find out what it means to me..." I've always loved Aretha Franklin's song, although I never really thoug...

I worked in the disability field for several years and in the elder care field for a lot more years.  In both of those jobs I found that a l...

I'm just making a note of what I'm working on now:  I've made a commitment to myself to develop my intuition - to really spend s...

Not having a lot of energy for running around in the world gives me time for introspection.  Not the most fun always.  I have realized that ...

The love of my life left the earth about 8 1/2 years ago, but I am still discovering things about him, about myself, and about my relationsh...

When I was reading one of my recovery books this morning, I was happy to see one of the sentences that expressed a central principles of rec...

I feel obligated to write about what I've learned about sex over a lifetime, but I realize I actually don't know that much.  Which i...

I'm currently single (and happy about it), but I've been married three times.  I learned a lot.  I've learned a lot more in my r...

Let's see...since just before Christmas I've had one difficulty after another.  Eye doctor said I needed to do cataract surgery.  Th...

I recently talked with someone who was questioning the phrase, "rocketed into the 4th dimension" from the Big Book.  I'm not s...

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...