It can be truly amazing how much a person can love another person. And yet sadly we do not fully comprehend the depth and completeness of that love until we are faced with living without it. And when I say without it, I really mean without the earthly reminder of it when we see that person or hear their voice. This kind of love is not really limited to the short-term capabilities of the…
“Why, why am I still here.” Her question to me was so simple, and her labored words told me just how much she wanted to be done here. But I had no definitive answer for her other than these difficult words. At 87, no one more deserves freedom and peace than you. But I’m a believer- and so are you, in a higher power. And that power protects us and guides…
“I feel that my work in progress has progressed to its final page and someone has glued it to the cover because there’s no more to be written,” she said to me in one of our many, many email conversations. It took me some time to process the gravity of her eloquent words as she tried to gently prepare me for the future. I needed to find a way to translate the feelings in my…
My father has been gone for over 15 years, but I learned a new lesson from him today, or maybe I was just finally able to understand the lesson. Dad was a child of the depression and although the stories of his childhood always sounded like great adventures when I heard them as a child, I now have finally grasped the truth about his challenging childhood. If it can be called a childhood. His…
As parents, we sometimes forget that our children spend a great deal of time looking up to us. They watch what we do and learn far more from what they see rather than what we tell them. In a sense we are more than a mirror for our children, we are a looking-glass which provides a glimpse of what they can be and achieve in their future. Be the role model and project an image of…
I’m a writer. I also suffer from bipolar disorder. It’s not easy. My depression eats me up alive. My mania drives me insane. It truly is a balancing act, one I can’t really control. Some medications worked for a while but so many only made things worse. Yet, each day, I try to make the best of it. I try to learn from every situation, using those lessons to create poems, articles, and stories. I…
So much has changed in the world in the past 50 years. An entirely new generation has come of age and brought with it the mantra that they are the center of it all. Their focus and concern never seem to drift beyond their own reflection that they see in the mirror each day. Millions of dollars are spent on keeping themselves looking and feeling young and making their lives easier. Electronics are used to complete mundane…
“I am a constant editor. I shed people, I shed clothing, I shed possessions, I shed ideas. The biggest thing that I’ve shed is my own limitations and perception of who I am.” This is a quote from Jamie Lee Curtis in the October 2018 issue of Good Housekeeping. Sometimes we forget that each of us is the author of our own story, our own life. We make choices about what we would like to…
It’s more than all right to be different. So you are not like everybody else So you have the guts to be somebody who stands out. You make your own rules. Well…I say GOOD FOR YOU! Who cares what others think?! Be who you want to be. Sure, you should ask for advice when it is called for but in the end, it’s all UP TO YOU! See The Good would like to thank Amy…
Change can be a good thing. Think of the changes you undergo on your journey as a means of honing the person who you are becoming. In my youth, I was quiet but with a well concealed wild side. I would act now and think later which often resulted in a somewhat negative outcome. In addition, I turned out to be a very slow learner when it came to learning from others. For some odd…