I Don’t Want Her To Be My Mother

Mother’s Day is coming up soon and I thought that the greatest gift I could give myself and my mother, even though she died a couple of years ago, would be to do another Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet on her.  Having done a gazillion (at least) Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheets on my mother over the years, I was curious [...]

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Welcome!

I hope you enjoy reading the short stories that have come to me to share with you.  I would love to hear the thoughts and insights that come to you as you read them. I will be posting other insights and questions that come to me periodically and invite you to comment on them as [...]

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Sitting in the Fire of Truth

I hear myself and others say, “I want to know the truth!” I have been convinced, at times, that this is true.  I have really believed this! THEN I bump up against a very strongly held belief, one that threatens my sense of security and who I think I am.  It is then that I [...]

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Creativity, Patience and Doll Clothes

Like most everyone, I grew up believing what other people said to me or believing some assumption I had about what they said. I grew up believing, among other things, that I was impatient and not at all creative.  I lived my life as though both were true.  And if you were to talk to [...]

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Small Shards of Glass

Every time we talk my mother tells me to take care of myself. I have found myself saying that very thing to others over the years. In the past I thought that getting a massage, buying myself something, taking a long leisurely bath or eating some decadent chocolate thing was “taking care of myself”.  I [...]

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