While talking with women and friends in all walks of life, secrets are shared and stories told. Some of them involve assault, that ugly word that we avoid discussing. When statistics say that one in three women (some say one in five women) have endured sexual assault we can assume that there are several with …
And America Bleeds
Good Morning.I've been watching and reading - here on FB and on Twitter - videos and comments of Americans divided into many camps.Over the weekend I had time to ponder - and this is my conclusion.The Democratic party is evil.It is evil.What ever or who ever is making decisions for that group is evil to …
Captivated
For a man who claims to not know the Lord, he possesses so many of his best qualities. He sees a need, he meets it before I even ask.He hears me talk about dreams and goals I had for the future, and he proactively seeks out ways to make them reality.He opens his home as …
If the shoe fits…
I cringe at some of the words describing Domestic Violence. Battered. Victim.Those are two words I don’t like describing women.They just seem so excessive, But if the shoe fits? Being married to a man who uses anger to control a home and its inhabitants is like going to school every day to deal with a …
Your Loved Ones are Waiting
There was a king with great faith. Not a fable or a myth, but an actual king whose life is recorded in secular and spiritual historical documents. I think of him during times of severe illness because he went to God first and doctors second. (I am a Christian, so many of my writings are …
Fear Does Not Get to Define You
Fear does not define you.The virus does not define you. Covid does not define us.It’s scary because it’s invisible,But focus on the recoveries.Contracting the virus is not a guaranteed death sentence.The mediaYour own governmentwould like you to think that it is,But it isn’t. So catching it - does not define you. Your CreatorThat is who …
Craven Fear and Compliance
For how long will you allow your rights to be disregarded?
It wasn’t that my world wasn’t good.It was very good.I put things in itOn purposeTo make it so;Shooting, singing, dinners out with the kids, movie dates with my daughters, movie dates with my sons,And movie dates alone to recharge my battery… Drives downtown to work and tiny tours to explore while I was there.I did …
Midnight Conversation
Soul was asleep. Heart reached up and tapped on Brain. ::Tap tap tap:: "You didn't forget, did you?" Brain looked down. "No. Of course I didn't forget. What do you think I am? Stupid? I couldn't forget if I tried." Heart listened while Brain elaborated. "She keeps recalling it with a start during her waking …
Key
For you, The porch light glows The door, unlocked. Well, not unlocked, But say the word, And you will have a key Because you do have a key To more than just A door. Calm Quiet Articulate Sarcastic Poetic Self-assured Hard as steel Soft as down Resolve like none I’ve ever seen In anyone But …