Category Archives: Buddhism

Special Needs Mom Freaking Out

I do not know how to get it out. I do not know how everyone can go along and pretend this is not happening. I feel like my heart is breaking and there is a part of my mind that is shadowed and dark as I try to figure out how to go forward. Does it even matter? Continue reading

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Protected: The Personal Pitfalls of Chronic Disease (TSC) meeting PTSD

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Dear Wheaton College,

Brief letter to my alma mater discussing the meaning of “fallng” Wheatie. Continue reading

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Lost at the Big Y, STUCK at Walmart. A rather long rant.

When my son Jack was around age 3-4, he was a bolter. I mean a runner.  A dasher.  As in Dash from The Incredibles, dasher.  And fast!  The kid would just flat out beat a trail away from me at … Continue reading

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TETANUS

My son Jack was concerned recently that he had acquired Tetanus. Lockjaw.  He locked down on this notion and obsessed about it to the point of not being able to eat or sleep, was having trouble functioning at school and … Continue reading

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The Power of Ice Cream

We have this little issue with ice cream in our family.  It goes way back.  Way back in my ancestral tribe.  Maybe it’s something that goes way back for a lot of us, those first memories of eating ice cream, … Continue reading

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The Path…infused with Artisanal by Dad

My father died of fronto-temporal dementia in September of 2004.  He was an exceptional human being in the way we all are exceptional human beings, however, he knew it.  He was a paratrooper in his early twenties and jumped out … Continue reading

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Running Out

And so, I ran my way out of my crisis of faith. Faith looks like running shoes and the great outdoors. I have been a runner for many many years and find running outside such a solace; me, my shoes … Continue reading

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From addiction to grace. A life hack. (rated PG)

I experienced a life hack when I was cast into the realm of the spiritual world during a marijuana induced psychosis.  I had a true out of body experience that was at once as horrifying as it was incredible.  It … Continue reading

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