Gone too soon If you know me or follow me you know that I have had many losses in my life. I have lost many loved ones, too many for one person to deal with, but this is the hand that I...
Why are you still there? Staying in a Domestic violence relationship This month is National Domestic Violence month and since this is near and dear to my heart I wanted to write about some of the reasons why we stay. It's really...
Sins of our mother So I watched this documentary on Netflix called Sins of our mother. It was about the 2020 case surrounding Lori Vallow Daybell — nicknamed the "doomsday mom" — who is presently awaiting trial for the deaths of her...
My love-hate relationship with Florida Everyone that follows me knows that I am a New Yorker. I love my hometown and the only reason I left was because I hated the cold weather. I couldn't take the snow storms, the 20...
Web of make believe So this weekend I was watching the Netflix series Web of make believe and I couldn't believe I was watching something that wasn't made up. This sounded like a movie not a real life story. If you don't...
Being back home So if you follow me you know I grew up in upstate New York. I love the mountains, streams, lakes and the whole outdoorsy way of life back home.I would move back to New York in a...
When you don't listen to the signs On the anniversary of a friends muder, I remembered the day I heard that was she was murdered by her estranged husband. It was so sad, she was young and beautiful and always fun...
The anniversary of my freedom Yesterday was the 9 year anniversary of my freedom and the funny thing is, I didn't even realize the date. I was on Facebook, when my remember when came up. Gotta love Facebook's remember when, otherwise...
Healing past pains So, if we are honest with ourselves we all have past pains. Something that has hurt us so deeply that we still have triggers from them. If you've been in an abusive relationship these triggers are off the charts. People...