I know I’m a compulsive overeater, that diets don’t work…for me. They work fine as a plan of eating but the diet idea, the willpower, the weigh-in-front-of-people-for-maximum-humiliation, the attagirls, the rewards you can add back in that for me start […]
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Futility and Fatality
We have listed and analyzed our resentments. We have begun to comprehend their futility and their fatality. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Location 1014). Who can rant and rave about wrongs perceived and entertain a wisp of a thought these resentments might be […]
Continue reading »Like a Radio
Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. ~ Jim Morrison Carry pain like a radio. Well, not many folks do… carry radios, that is. I trooped through the grocery today, […]
Continue reading »Whispering Shadows
Secrets, shadows, ghosts of should-haves, wraiths of good intentions haunted, goaded me, embroiled my heart and soul. Destiny led us to these rooms, all my fears and me. Love held and healed me, set me free, relieved me of the fears. […]
Continue reading »I’ll NEVER Tell!
No! No! No! No! No! Not now, not ever! I’ve told you muck to nauseate a buzzard! I’ve dredged up all the sins, the shame, the crimes, the wrongs since when I was a tot, you’ve got enough to sentence […]
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