Are you feeling Hopeless? Depressed? Emotional? Broken? Are the holiday blues chasing you into the New Year? Are you angry because someone refused to make the fruit pie like grandma did or someone else wanted to host at their home this year and not the traditional location? Oh my! What do we do when someone interrupts […]
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Brushed By His Wing
Out of nowhere a big hawk swooped down to windshield level. He flew in front of our car, wings spread wide, as if to lead us out of the woods of Maine. We followed him, keeping up with his speed as best we could. My husband and I had been privileged to spend a few […]
Give Me Ten Dollars
A woman with a medical mask on her face approached me at night in the parking lot of Ocean State Job Lot when I was walking towards my car. I assumed we were heading in the same direction to look for our cars because her shopping cart veered towards me. I glanced her way and thought she had […]
Unspoken burden between a mother and daughter
When I was fifteen, going on sixteen, I wrote an angry two-page letter to my mother after I ran away from home. I wanted her to know how tired I was of being abused by her husband, my dad. Well, I had just been pulled down the stairs and then dragged by my hair, so like, I had had enough. Not only […]
Wounded Song…Where Are You?
Did it bore you? Have you read it yet? It has been 10-months since my book launch…how has it affected you? Did you read part of it, or all of it? Did you pick it up and put it down? Not sure if you liked the topic? Or perhaps, you were afraid it might tap […]
Dad’s Aren’t Perfect
…so stop trying. Swallow your pride and let go of false expectation of yourself so you can become the best dad you were designed to be! No matter how hard we strive for perfection, we will fail at something and then we feel guilty, inadequate, or we try even harder and still fail. So stop […]
Fed Up With Men
and tired of being the fifth wheel…that’s when I met him…Curtis…twenty-eight years ago on June 6, 1992. Below is an excerpt from my book Wounded Song, released on amazon books July 2017! [excerpt from chapter 26 – titled The Fragile Dance] Who says Prince Charming has to come on a white horse and kiss me awake to […]
Do You Feel Like a Failure?
Do you think you are stupid? Dumb? You just feel like a failure and you can’t do anything right? Perhaps you’ve had a victory over something, but then something else sets you back 3-steps. You mumble a few choice words, throw the hammer, slam a few things and shout, “That figures! Nothing ever works for me.” It […]
The Measure of a Man
Parkinson’s took my uncle November 28, 2017, but he fought it for twenty years because he refused to stop living life. After my husband Curtis played guitar and sang, Amazing Grace My Chains Are Gone, I was one of many privileged to share some words at his Celebration of Life December 2, 2017. I’d like to share […]
What Would My Lucille Say?
Mr. Ernest Gismondi met Lucille. They fell in love and married. She kept the home fires going while Mr. Gismondi served in the Army Air Corps as a pilot flying B17’s during World War II. Following the war, he became a test engineer for United Technologies in Bridgeport and Stratford while he and his wife settled […]