At 9:52 tonight my dog's heart stopped ( Read more... )

Although I enjoy visiting my mother, I don't enjoy going to her house. Her house is filled with things from my past, painful things, and being there is a stark reminder of how my life used to be ( Read more... )

I'm not a patient person. I cannot say for sure if this is part of my make-up or a result of living in a family where time was constantly of the essence ( Read more... )

On the news this week there was a story about a young girl that had been bitten in the face by an alligator. The jaws clamped down literally over one of her eyes and down to her cheekbone. But in looking at her, her scars are minimal. Extraordinary ( Read more... )

I just finished Robert Goolrick's memoir, "The End Of The World As We Know It". In it, he details his struggles with alcohol abuse and his use of cutting to try and deal with the sexual molestation he suffered as a child at the hands of his father ( Read more... )

A friend of mine has an elderly parent. Over the last few years, her mental health has completely deteriorated from forgetfulness to dementia and now Alzheimer's. She is no longer able to live on her own, and so she and her husband have been re-located to an assisted living facility ( Read more... )

The issue of affording treatment is always something that comes up, even in the best of financial times ( Read more... )

For all the time I've spent searching, you think I'd have all the answers I've been looking for ( Read more... )

It's amazing how dates become significant depending on what's going on in your life at the time ( Read more... )

I get a lot of e-mails that usually end with something like this: "I want to believe I can get past this, but..." or "I want to believe that this new treatment plan will work but ( Read more... )