Loving My Long Hair

March 14, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

I love my long hair. I used to really love having short hair, also. When I was a child I remember my mom having my dad take me and one of my sisters to the barbershop to get our hair cut. We had long hair and my mom had a hard time brushing through it […]

Overcoming the Fear of Speaking Up

February 2, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

I’ve lived in fear of speaking up most of my life. I’ve only challenged it sometimes. Covid and quarantining makes you really have time to think. It gives you the time to work on things about yourself that you may want to change or the things about your life that you may want to overcome. […]

1yr anniversary – R.I.P. Dad

December 22, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

I saw this at the mall and it spoke to me. I probably have a connection to it because it has water, looks like it was taken under the sea. And, I probably feel a close connection because I’m such a Pisces, water girl, mermaid. I even take baths, a couple a week, and they […]

I could be labeled

January 24, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Labels shouldn’t exist, but they do. They are things we have done, NOT who we are or who we will become. I could be labeled many things: illegal, ACOA (Adult Child of an Alcoholic), domestic violence survivor, excessive alcohol and drug user, rape victim, assault victim, hitchhiker, high school dropout, call girl, and single mother […]

Mommy Why

June 14, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

6-1998 Mommy Why Why doesn’t anyone like me? Here I come full circle, Twenty-eight years of loneliness. Mommy Why, Why doesn’t anyone like me? Don’t they see the pretty, young girl so pure and sweet? If they treated me well for one minute of the day, I’d be so loyal, so willing […]