By now if you’ve been on Facebook for any length of time you’ve seen links to dog groups for adoption or rehoming. Or, if they weren’t groups for dogs they may have been groups dedicated to some other animal. THESE ARE RUN BY SCAMMERS. I have tried numerous times to post an educational post about…
THE Golden Rule Is Still In Effect
“The Golden Rule” was taught religiously when I was a child. It may have had slight variations in wording, but the thought was the same – don’t do anything to someone else that you wouldn’t want done to you. As an empath, this seems like simple common sense. I feel the pain inflicted upon others….
Covid Changed The World
“Covid changed the world”. I have heard that many times over. I was talking with a friend I met in Walmart the other day and she said the same thing. “Everyone is so mean and full of hate.” She’s right. It seems that people tend to look for reasons to hate before giving love and…
Time – Where Have You Gone?
I feel that I am obsessed with the concept of time this year. Scientifically, it is measured with a watch, and separated into labeled sections such as hours or days. But, it feels relatively different to each person and situation without a timepiece. Time lost can never be replaced. You may be able to repeat…
Give Your Kids Cameras! Preserve Those Memories
What kid doesn’t ask for a camera at an early age? Or, I guess these days, they just pilfer a parent’s phone to sneak a photo opportunity. The point is that kids love taking pictures. Give them cameras! Back when I was younger it was a lot more expensive to take pictures. There were no…
Is It Love (Or a Trauma Bond)?
Let’s talk about a trauma bond. It’s a little off the main road of my recent posts, but anyone who has followed me for any length of time knows that I can veer off the beaten path at any given moment. These posts are usually about what’s most prevalent in my life when I feel…
GET OUT OF HERE 2023! Let’s Welcome 2024
Well, I can only hope 2024 is better than 2023 was. I’m not the only one who said this year pretty much sucked. While looking through the highlights of each month, it was hard to find anything positive, but there sure were a lot of negatives. In 2023, I experienced the deaths of more than…
Merry Muddy Christmas From Wisconsin
It’s Christmas Day in Wisconsin. This should bring visions of snow and ice on the ground, cold temperatures of nearly 20 degrees, winds blowing through bare branches of trees, and gloomy, gray days. Well, we have the gloomy, gray day but that’s the only thing that matches the typical vision. The ground today is muddy…
An Instrument Of Peace
“Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.” Thus starts the peace prayer of St. Francis. It’s a simple prayer but, how it is needed in the world in which we currently live. You don’t have to be a praying person to benefit from the prayer for peace. Reading it and living it is enough….
What Does “Support System” Mean?
As I was perusing Facebook the other day, I saw a meme that seemed particularly meaningful. It said, “Your support system should never gossip about you.” I wonder how many people realize what this means. “Support system” means those people who you count on to be there when you need someone to understand you. They…