“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.” – Bette Davis I am going to be bluntly honest in this blog session. I totally have issues with boundaries. I have difficulty figuring out where my lines need to be drawn. I remember being a kid and hearing my dad say to me “You’re … Continue reading Navigating Boundaries →

(extended version: not a summation) “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson In 1994, when I was sixteen years old, I became a Rotary International Youth Exchange Student to Johannesburg, South Africa. At that time, I had been deaf … Continue reading Expedition: Trailblazing →

Quagmire: a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot. For the love of Pete, can I not have something be simple? No. I CANNOT. There are different types of love. There is the love of a parent for a child and a child for a parent. There is the love between friends. AND … Continue reading Quagmire: Gender Roles in Romantic Relationships →

"We all have scars, some inside some out. Scars serve as a reminder, a lesson learned, a lesson to be shared." Brian Kinnett I am 41 years old. I have plenty of physical scars to show for it. What my body looked like when I was born in the late 70's is not what it … Continue reading Scars →