Just when I think that things might be okay, and life just might get back to normal, and that I might wake up from this nightmare, the gut-wrenching fear rears its ugly head and slaps me back down ( Read more... )

On Wednesday morning, we will be packing Ron's dad up and moving him back to the coast. I am now down to counting hours. It has come a month sooner than we thought it would and we are both very glad. We were trying to just get through another month of exhaustion and extreme frustration, and Doug called to tell us that he could move him the first ( Read more... )

I just came back from the grocery store, and I cried all the way home. When I got out of my car to go in, there was a young couple with two little children. A darling little girl about 4 years old and a baby boy in the cart. The little girl was eating a cookie and right in the middle of the parking lot, her father turned around and just ( Read more... )

I was out shopping and running errands today. While in the grocery store, I saw this woman who was my age, or thereabouts. She had on a very revealing tank top, very short shorts, and sandals. AND NO BRA! Believe me, she needed one badly. She also had bleached hair that was to her shoulders (and not especially clean hair at that - greasy, ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in quite some time. No reason really, other than not wanting to sound like a whiney jerk. Since I am extremely hormonal today, I really don't give a crap if I am whining or not ( Read more... )

We are on our way to Portland to talk with Ron's brother about his Dad's financial situation and the mishandling of the monies by their middle brother. I have to say that I'm not looking forward to this at all and I have been feeling sick to my stomach since yesterday. Actually, its been longer than that. It started when we discovered that Doug ( Read more... )

Once again, a small community in our country has been devastated by a high school shooting. It is beyond my understanding what happens to young people to make them take this course of action and destroy so many lives. I remember what we went through here in Springfield. I can remember every moment of the day that a young man killed fellow ( Read more... )

Its Sunday morning and as I am sitting here I am thinking about organized religion and what it means to people ( Read more... )

When I woke up this morning, I remembered that tomorrow is the 23rd anniversary of the death of our son, Jordan. I laid in bed and thought about him for a little while ( Read more... )

I just got back from grocery shopping. This has never been my favorite task, and I usually feel resentful and irritated when I'm in grocery stores ( Read more... )