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Digging Up Bones Part II, Something's Happening Here -
Debi Strong (183)   
(Continued from Part I)
When puberty arrived, everything hit the fan. It didn't happen all at once, of course. It was a gradual process.
The first sign of something changing occurred at summer camp, just after I'd turned 13. I had isolated myself throughout the summer, spending all my time... ( added 8 days 18 hours ago.) |
Digging Up Bones Part I, Childhood Scars -
Debi Strong (183)
"I'm diggin' up bones, I'm diggin' up bones Exhuming things thats [sic] better left alone" Randy Travis
As this Randy Travis song suggests, digging up the bones of your past is not the greatest thing to do for your psyche. But I can't help it. The graveyard of my life, where my childhood, past... ( added 11 days 16 hours ago.) |
Personally Speaking: Some Thoughts from a Reluctant Student of Depression -
 - Debi Strong (183)
Having been a student of depression for most of my 54 years, life is a struggle. I call myself a "student," rather than a "sufferer," or "victim," simply because having survived up until now is an accomplishment in itself, which must mean that I am learning something as I go rather than simply... ( added 19 days 14 hours ago.) |
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Why (sort of) Seeing a Ghost/ Ghoul / Thing didn't make me any less Sceptical about their Existence -
- Connor Davidson (5,131)    
Connor Davidson  
I am a Sceptic when it comes to anything supernatural and as a scientist I find it frustrating sometimes that I can't just say everything supernatural is a load of old rope. Belief leads me to that conclusion but it is not a scientist place to believe it is a scientist's job to prove. I follow... ( added 18 days 17 hours ago.) |
Are you always in a Rush? Over Working Yourself? Wish Stairs were Slides? Then Join the Club! -
- Connor Davidson (5,131)
Connor Davidson
Slow down. Take your time. Relax. There's no rush. There is time for everything.
Hello! Leap out of bed twenty minutes late and smell the coffee, for the two or three seconds it takes you to wolf it down, while running out to your car and franticly fumbling in your pockets and on your mobile... ( added 2 days 17 hours ago.) |
Vanishing Point -
Dianne Lehmann (5,182) 
Dianne Lehmann
The discovery of perspective and its incorporation into drawn art completely changes the way an artist looks at the world. Until then, drawings were flat and lifeless (think of Egyptian art) and bore little resemblance to the world as humans perceive it. The advent of perspective allowed an... ( added 5 days 22 hours ago.) |
Learning to Hear What Others Are Really Saying -
Linda DeWitt (1,890)  
Linda DeWitt
Some lessons are hard and some lessons are easy, its what you do with the experience that counts.
Unfortunately for me most of my lessons were learned the hard way. It seems that I had a problem with my hearing. I was never sure that what you said was what I heard because it seems like most... ( added 12 days 9 hours ago.) |
More Thoughts from the Reluctant Student of Depression -
Debi Strong (183)
I hate getting older. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I feel like time is running out and I still haven't "gotten it right." Depression definitely doesn't help the situation. I seem to struggle with so many issues on an almost daily basis and I hate that too! I know it's a waste of time, but my brain... ( added 17 days 22 hours ago.) |
The Twin Set -
- Felicia Weston (24) 
"Why are you wearing two sweaters when it's a hundred degrees outside?" The girl fidgeting in front of the chalkboard burst into tears and Mrs. Reese shot me a look of pure evil. I wasn't trying to be a smart aleck. I truly wanted to know. Besides, my fellow third graders had already peppered the... ( added 11 days 16 hours ago.) |
Identifying Abuse in a Relationship -
- Nancy Travers (49)
Anyone can become a victim of domestic abuse. It could be your neighbor, your child's teacher, the teller at the bank, or the salesperson who just sold you mascara at the fine department store. Many women and men think that if they're in a middle or upper income bracket they're above abuse or... ( added 20 days 8 hours ago.) |
I Am So Friggen Angry .. -
Suzy (918)  
Suzy
I am not certain exactly where to start but being silent isn't helping and if I tell a story who is to know where I live and where to find me, so I'll begin with a simple question: what the hell is going on in American neighborhoods with drug dealing and squealing?
Steve Kovacs, do you simply... ( added 28 days 9 hours ago.) |
Annual Physical, Piece of Cake -
Brianna Popsickle (1,642) 
Brianna Popsickle
"Ugh, I don't want to go," my daughter said looking at the calendar. She was scheduled for her first complete physical in another week, mine was scheduled for the next day. "Aw, there's nothing to it," I reassured her. "It's a piece of cake." Of course I was lying through my teeth. What woman in... ( added 52 days 18 hours ago.) |
Going Postal! -
Brianna Popsickle (1,642)
Brianna Popsickle
All he asked was, "Could you deliver this sometime this morning?" My husband had packaged up some novels to be mailed to a bookstore. I had about five errands to run before my ten o'clock appointment, but what the heck, I'm a team player. "Sure I'll make a quick stop at the post office," I... ( added 67 days 11 hours ago.) |
Death, Destruction, Mayhem and the Grand Canyon -
- Myla Madson (3,380) 
Myla Madson
With a title like that, you just have to click thru and read my article, right? Studies show that negative headlines attract more readers just like horrific accidents out on the highway cause traffic jams in the opposite lanes by those stretching their necks trying to get a look at the bloody... ( added 187 days 19 hours ago.) |
Don't Tell Anyone -
- Brianna Popsickle (1,642)
Brianna Popsickle
It happened when I was 8; I was in third grade. I had my friend Rachel over for the weekend. We bundled up in layers of clothes and dragged our toboggans to the apartment hill, a few blocks from my home. It was a favourite spot for neighbourhood kids to toboggan.
Surprisingly, we had the... ( added 201 days 2 hours ago.) |
The Will To Live -
- Tex Norman (4,200) 
Tex Norman
As a depression prone person I often wonder why I continue to live. I am not saying that I am contemplating suicide, because I am not. Sometimes, however, I wonder about the "will to live." What is the point of it? Would a will to live give me an inner drive that would keep me striving for... ( added 1 year 22 days ago.) |
The Rise and Fall of a Wall Named Ruin: The Foundation -
- Teresa Ortiz (11,020)  
Teresa Ortiz
Like everything in life, Ruin had a beginning. I remember the day I began to build her; I was seven years old. When my parents divorced, we moved into a different neighborhood. It wasn't better than the other, just a different set of the same kind of people.
Shyness was not a weakness... ( added 1 year 99 days ago.) |
My Fantasy World -
Laura Lynn Lake (220) 
Laura Lynn Lake
I have dreams every night just like everyone else in this world. But there is one dream that I will never forget…
It all starts out two years ago, when I was 7 years old - I had the best dreams when I was 7. The dream was about my family and me. The dream starts out with my friend, Shelley... ( added 1 year 146 days ago.) |
The Long and The Short of It -
- Dianne Lehmann (5,182)
Dianne Lehmann
Hair. So much of my identity was, at one time, tied up in my hair. I'm not entirely sure that is no longer true. But I hope that it is not.
For most of my childhood, I had what could be considered long hair. When I was eleven years old, I decided I wanted to have my hair cut. There was this... ( added 1 year 147 days ago.) |
And All I Needed was Shampoo... -
- Ken McCreless (1,693) 
Ken McCreless
I went to the store for shampoo. At first I couldn't find it because the store had done another one of those "switch everything around so customers have to search and search and will spend more than they planned to" change-a-roos. Of course I am too smart to be suckered into that. I realized this... ( added 1 year 207 days ago.) |
Excuse Me, But, Yes, I Am From ‘Long-Guy-Land’ -
Judi Lake (1,870) 
Judi Lake
I have lived on Long-guy-land all of my life (yes, ‘on’ -- a Long-guy-lander does not live ‘in’ the Island) and moved to South Carolina five years ago. For those unfamiliar with tha Island, LI is NOT Noo Yawk City and has a culture of its own. Long-guy-land, in fact, as I have learned since... ( added 2 years 175 days ago.) |
California Cell Phone Ban gets Poor Reception from this Writer -
Mike Fak (5,738) 
Mike Fak
When I first heard about California contemplating a cell phone ban while driving, I was surprised. I don’t place much stock in the people of that state having as much common sense as we Midwesterners do. I mean, how can you consider people who build their homes right on a major fault in the Earth... ( added 3 years 50 days ago.) |
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Nightmare Number ? -
Joyce Dunn (162) 
Joyce Dunn
"I'll be doing the driving when we are in San Francisco. This is not open for discussion."
Jim and I were flying to San Francisco to meet my German pen pal of 50 years. The term pen pal really isn't that accurate any more. We've been writing for 50 years, met nearly 25 years ago, and have... ( added 22 days 14 hours ago.) |
My Husband---Myself---Remodeling and the List -
Linda DeWitt (1,890)
Linda DeWitt
Dont ever buy a house that needs some remodeling, especially if you are married to someone with an obsessive personality. My husband and I recently moved so we could be closer to our children.
We have owned two new houses in the last nine years, the first one he didn't like because the... ( added 24 days 9 hours ago.) |
Schedules and Organisation must be Forms of Obscure Inverse Calculus -
- Connor Davidson (5,131)
Connor Davidson
I should start by saying I was intending on doing this article yesterday, but my schedule got in the way as I had a few things to do and some people to meet. No surprises there.
I should also point out, at this stage, that I am not the most organised person you will ever meet. But, more... ( added 44 days 16 hours ago.) |
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