I was born a gifted child. This is something that I always was and it never occurred to me that there was anything “special” about me or that there would be specific challenges for my parents, especially my mother, who was with me the most as my father travelled for weeks on end with his […]
Something from Nothing
My grandmother used to say, “You can do anything you want with your life…or you can do nothing with it.” There have been numerous times in my life when I have felt that I am doing nothing with it. I think that this is because we live in a world that acknowledges only parts of […]
Breaking Trust
We have all had this happen. Relationships develop, trust gets built. And then, BAM, that trust is broken. For myself, I have always found that when someone breaks my trust they never have the opportunity to regain it. Of course, this is different than when your child breaks your trust. They are still learning. But […]
Winter is Coming
This is a phrase that was made very famous by HBO’s Game of Thrones. It carried with it a foretelling of doom and gloom, despair and disaster. In the farther north hemisphere of the planet, and, I imagine, in the farther south hemisphere as well, it simply indicates a change of seasons from warm to […]
Going Far
There is an African proverb that goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This is something that I have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, in my own life. I was raised to be very self-sufficient. I was given responsibilities early on, some of […]
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