Through An Al-Anon Filter

So much of my life was spent waiting, rather than living. As a child, I waited to be adopted, believing that when I was adopted, I would fin...

Today started out well, then I was sitting here doing some unpicking of a waistband on a pair of pants I'm altering, because they've...

"You haven't mentioned dying, are you in denial?" This was said by a woman who I'd thought was intelligent and sensitive...

When my dear friend was diagnosed with terminal cancer a year ago this past April, and I went to see him twice a day in the hospital over th...

When new to program, the idea that it was not possible, or even my place, to change another person's behavior to suit me, was one of the...

A reader has asked me to share on the topics: "I do enough," and "dealing with chronic pain." I can relate well to bo...

At dinner earlier this week, I was talking to my partner, struggling to express the confused turmoil of emotion which had been roiling insid...