Beautiful World

I put away all my posts about Jeff and official reports and feeling stressed. PTSD is an interesting monster. When it's invisible, unk...

I glanced over this blog and her sister blog, "Magical World" this weekend. So many posts about how I'm doing better and heali...

I just need to say this for the record: I've been wrong about a lot of things I've written in this blog.

I didn't understand what making a report would mean-- what it would reveal about how much further I have to go in my healing. I had reac...

Today I filed an official report. Jeff was to be contacted, as well, so that he could file his report. There is no statute of limitations. T...

I'm having lots of ups and downs lately. Stress does that to me. Father-in-law went home yesterday. Adam was the last one to leave for...

Yup. I am. Right now I'm still learning to use my new hip and I'm limited to using the treadmill-- one minute running/two minutes ...

My father-in-law does nothing. I'm pretty sure he wants to do something, but unless someone suggests it, he does nothing. On Saturday he...

Darrin is the youngest in his family. I am one of the oldest. My dad is in his late 60s. Darrin's dad is ancient. Because of his ancie...

Because sometimes when I'm unable to manage PTSD (not even close to "managing" right now), I think about weird things, and ima...

Years ago I was in the pediatrician's office, waiting for my child to be called to an exam room. I was pretending to read a magazine. I ...

I am a hoarder. Not in the normal sense of the word-- I hate clutter and I don't collect things. I routinely sort and purge my belongi...

Therapist sent me an email today. Part of the email was this sentence, "What I want you to know is that you have inspired me with the w...

I have been blogging more than eight years. This blog, Beautiful World, is and extension of another blog, Magical World, which I began in Ma...

I got home from New York to find a letter and five phone messages letting me know that my mammogram screening showed a problem and I needed ...

I've been in New York visiting family for the past week. It's been about eight years since I was last here. Tabitha and I are stayin...

Sometimes I want to scribble on a blog post. There are drawbacks to not writing with a pen or pencil. By the time I import the picture o...

There was a time when I used to judge people who were: 1. overweight 2. jobless 3. in chronic pain or fatigue (I called it "hypochon...

Okay. I can't stand it anymore. I was going to remain utterly silent about my views concerning misogyny and accepted mormnorm views of ...

I once knew a person who dealt with bi-polar disorder. He would take his medication religiously for awhile, then go off it. He said it was b...

When the process is happening, I always wonder if I'll be successful, or if I'm doing the right thing, or if, when I'm finished,...

When I was growing up, some famous person used to say, "Eat right and exercise every day." I'm guessing it was on a television...

Physical movement saves me. I have no background in a health field of any kind. All I know is that if I run, I feel better for the rest of t...