Beautiful World

Today I had to buy a toilet seat. I firmly believe this is Darrin's job. I also firmly believe one should only have to buy a single toil...

I suppose there will always be a part of me which wonders how many of the "bad things" in my life could have been prevented. This ...

My children believe that one must set the morning alarm three hours prior to actual wake-up time, then snooze for the next three hours. I...

...with Salman Rushdie who has a delightful sense of humor, a huge awareness of people and politics, and writes beautifully...after attendin...

I don't know how to describe the things that are happening to me. I tried, last night, to talk about them with Tolkien Boy, who has, muc...

I don't know how many of my readers are aware of this, but a few months ago this blogger and her husband were critically injured in a p...

...with Therapist because he came to a workshop in which I was a panel member with Darrin, and he stayed through the whole thing, even when ...

I keep doing things I've never wanted to do. This weekend I attended and participated in a workshop called, "Living with the Aftere...

Everyone has one, right? The relative that makes one wonder if perhaps that relative was actually a foundling and there is no (hopefully) bl...

In the process of writing my blogs, there have been questions asked of me for which I've had no answers, and comments made which I have ...

It has taken what feels like an eternity to get to this place. And today has been a very long day. I confessed to Therapist my blog love aff...

Therapist: Why do you think you needed to visit the people and places you've been visiting? Me: I think I might finally be ready to let ...

...and someone found my blog by searching "samantha stevens without a bra." Dang!! How did they know!

I am sitting in the hotel where I spent the night eighteen months ago--the night before I had lunch with my dear, sweet, rapist cousin. Why ...

Yesterday was my birthday. I don't like birthdays. I've been thinking a lot about that.  A few weeks ago Tolkien Boy told me he was ...

Yeah. I know. That's not how the scriptures goes.  It is, unfortunately, how I apply it 99.9% of the time. I'm prone to talking with...

Many years ago I became involved with an opinion panel. I'm not sure how that happened, as I'm not keen on sharing my opinions with ...