JYProvocative Question #9 – A CHANGE OF POSITION Have you ever changed your mind on a position stance or changed an opinion you previously held? What was the impetus for the change? Was it difficult for you to admit that… Read More ›
choices
HOBSON’S CHOICE
I’m trying to see if a very carefully chosen diet plus half doses of this medication will work. I’ve read a lot about it and this is one of those medications that has a list of urgent warning that’s pages… Read More ›
STRANGE CHOICES
My doctor put me on a medication that has done wonders to relieve the pain from spinal arthritis and bursitis. It’s almost a miracle. It has nearly eliminated the bursitis in my hips. I can stand up and walk around… Read More ›
SHARING MY WORLD ON THE FIRST OF MARCH
SHARE YOUR WORLD 2-28-2022 It’s a hard world we are living in. I look around and I don’t see any good coming out of anything that is happening. I do not see humans on the road to improvement nor any sign… Read More ›
WHAT I DIDN’T DO – Marilyn Armstrong
I don’t regret the things I didn’t do, but I do wonder how the world would have turned had I done them. There was the offer to join a group I think maybe I should have joined. I failed to… Read More ›
SEX, LIFE, MARRIAGE, AND LOSS – Marilyn Armstrong
Before I left for Israel at the end of 1978, my best friend for a long time was gay. It started out casually and eventually got to be an intense friendship. He’d never had a straight female friend and I’d… Read More ›
MEANDERING THROUGH LIFE
I love posts about whether to take the traveled or less traveled path. As if we get that choice. All paths are untraveled until we walk them. Choices? When I was 18, I had a choice to go to Cape… Read More ›
THE LAP – Judy Dykstra-Brown
THE LAP Mothers with children in your lap, snuggled safely for their nap, or joggers slowing down their laps so their sons can fill the gaps and catch up to take their father’s hands, consider parents in other lands as well… Read More ›
LEARNING FROM THE PAST
Baggage Check We all have complicated histories. When was the last time your past experiences informed a major decision you made? You may call it baggage, as if it’s unnecessary junk. But we are who we are because of what… Read More ›
WHEN A WINDOW OPENS
Every time I hear “God opens a window when he closes a door,” “God will take care of it,” ” Have faith, God will save you” I wonder if we are so helpless we can’t, in the face of difficulties,… Read More ›