While we’re on the topic of confrontation and such; I listened to a discussion this morning on Good Morning America. One of the hosts was questioning a Psychologist, or someone of that field, about why people would behave in a manner as that astronaut did and do something that was so out of character to her friends and family. Is that type of behavior normal or to be expected? (I’m paraphrasing here) The Psychologist mentioned Bipolar disorders, depression, and other condition like t...

Happy Birthday Daddy It's been a while since I greeted you dad, it's been a while since I've dreamt you. I've been thinking about this day all week, while I've been going back and forth with your grand children. It's your favorite time of the year again - Christmas! I smile when I remember the special time you and mom made it for us kids. This is the time you would be off for two months too! I loved having you around for that long without work hanging around. I watched the So...

Slightly altered from my last post of this prose I wrote for her. Sometimes I want to get into bed with my mommy To run to her for refuge To tell her my dreams To talk to her about my anxieties To get her spin on things To be safe and warm Away from the maddening clouds Of doubts To see her smile Hear her laughter Brush her hair To look into her face Her eyes And know that I’m truly loved To see myself looking back at me Sometimes I Just want to Get into bed Wi...

I was watching this show (don’t remember the name, sorry) and this woman asked her boyfriend of so many years to marry her. He was delighted and all but his comment was he wanted to be the one to do it, being a guy and all, he wanted to do the male thing, and get the ring, go down on one knee and pop the question himself . She apologized and told him that the timing was so perfect now for them to do it especially since they had been living together for so long. His reply was “ Yeah babe, ...

Speaking of crushes, I keep going back to my younger days (yea, all of 20 odd years ago!) when I lived on the island. There was a group of people I hanged out with and we had a great time. There was a doctor, a lawyer, a couple of diplomats, a couple of liaisons (their title), and me. (I was a student teacher at the time – I actually had my own classroom too). We used to party from Thursday to Sunday. Most times I would be getting home with just a couple of hours to get to work. Ma...

Remember all those stories we read as children (and that we read to our own kids now), that tells you the prince and the commoner or the prince and the princess lived happily ever after? Is that the truth or just a lie? Relationships don’t always end in happily ever after. To have happily ever after you have to work really hard at your relationships. Happily ever after in any relationship does require hard work. Take for example in the fairy tales, Cinderella, who we felt sorry for...

JU is down and I've been trying to get this posted and hopefully it will post today! I wanted to thank the following people who gave a hand in writing this prose: Dr. Guy, Island Gurl, KellyW, InBloom, San Chonino, AngelaMarie, Dynamaso and UdigIttheMost . Thank you so much for responding to my blog the other day and sharing your thoughts [I can't link it as easily from the forums but it's the same titled piece]. I basically left what you each wrote but only use the words I t...

We all know there's nothing like a mother's love. She's there to guide you, protect you, love you and even support you even when the going gets tough. Mom's are so many things to their children and family. What she does defies all job description. I mean who else do what we do right moms?! I began writing this and although I'm filled with a lot of thoughts on what to write I thought this would be a wonderful project that I could get contribution for. Not monetary, your talented...

Recently I’ve been concentrating on why I worry so much. Why I don’t do what I know will make me feel a whole lot better and stop putting stress on myself? Yep, that bag of stress that I constantly pick up and put on my shoulder, like a toilet waiting for a dump load. I walk around with it, making myself miserable and those closest to me sometimes feel the brunt of this when I’m not at my best. It’s like I’m two personalities. One that shows the happy face, take it all on, handle it on...

My husband can be really ridiculous sometimes. I mean that in a good way. There are times when he really drives me crazy, like when we disagree about disciplining the kids. He rules with a soft, leave them alone hand. I on the other hand want them to face up to their misbahaviour and there are times when they get grounded or lose a favourite treat or even get hard slap on the bottom from me, depending on the age, cause slapping our teenager doesn't make sense, I just have to take away her ...

Women are such fantastic beings. We’re intuitive, loving, and classy; many of us are very independent; we are wives, girlfriends, lovers, mothers, daughters, sisters, all of the in-laws, aunts, and every other list on the relative chain. The list of who we are and what we are about is so long and so vast that it is too many to list here. There are always some sayings about women, one that get repeated a lot is, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” which really reads, if a woman d...