Tag: relationships
member name: Julie (there will always be a rainbow) G.
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December 08, 2009 05:26 PM EST --
We trimmed the tree over the weekend. This is not an unusual thing. Actually, we were a week late in getting it up, and we still don’t have the second one up. But the fact that . . .
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September 27, 2007 03:18 PM EDT --
Last week, I wrote of and to my tenth grade English teacher. I wrote of his impact on my life and purpose, and I thanked him for being exactly the teacher I needed him to be, at exactly the time I needed . . .
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June 15, 2008 11:35 AM EDT --
I had to stop with this, instead of finishing this part of my story, because it was becoming longer than I anticipated. I hope to post the next installment within a day or two, but wanted this one to . . .
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February 07, 2008 12:40 PM EST --
When I met her, she was almost two years old and I was almost twenty-nine. I had flown to Spokane from Virginia at my sister's request that I come west to spend Christmas with Mom for the first . . .
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June 11, 2008 02:02 PM EDT --
Sam and I were married in 1989, and it was a "mistake." I knew it the day that I said my vows. I knew it because he was a wonderful man in so many ways, but while I was readying for the informal . . .
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July 30, 2008 11:06 AM EDT --
It has been a while since I posted an installment of "Rise" so if you need a refresher or haven't read any of the previous ones, here is the link to the last sequential installment. Actually, . . .
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December 03, 2008 02:26 PM EST --
The week began just like every other Monday, other than the fact that I did not feel well.
Saturday evening, my husband and I had gone out for a while, enjoying some outdoor . . .
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September 20, 2007 08:22 PM EDT --
I was a child my mother referred to as “homely.” I don’t believe it was because I was actually ugly; in fact, though for many years I believed I was ugly, it was only the self-image which . . .
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January 03, 2008 05:36 PM EST --
I was fifteen when I came home from work to find my mother alone and crying one summer day. I didn't pry. My mother and I were not really close, so I didn't ask what was wrong but I knew something . . .
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August 14, 2008 12:10 PM EDT --
Virginia felt like home, again, as I returned not knowing what was ahead of me once more. This time, I got a hotel room and stayed there for a week or so while looking for a roommate. I didn’t know . . .
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August 14, 2008 03:16 PM EDT --
In the morning, I made breakfast for Althea and myself and we waited to hear from Maria before I walked her home. After a short conversation with Maria, I gave Althea a hug, thanked her for her company, . . .
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February 05, 2008 01:29 PM EST --
This one is a little shorter than the last two, but Dad has been heavy on my mind these past days and it's been the happy memories which predominate now. Just wanted to share this short one with you. . . .
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February 27, 2008 11:19 AM EST --
A few minutes ago, I posted an article about the stresses in my life, including walking into my kitchen yesterday afternoon to find my kitchen drawers pulled out, and me being alone... and feeling a presence . . .
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July 30, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
On the way to Montana, I stopped in my hometown. My brother, Jim had called me a couple of weeks earlier to invite me to stay with him and his family for as long as I needed to, and I intended . . .
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September 12, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
Another two-parter, here...
I left Virginia with every intention of remaking my life in Montana. I was looking forward to it; to the healing power of family and a new start. Lily mentioned to . . .
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December 27, 2007 05:25 PM EST --
I have been working on this for a couple of weeks and though it is far from finished, just decided that I would publish it in installments, for brevity's sake. Here is Part One:
He . . .
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August 20, 2008 09:07 AM EDT --
A Spoon in the Pot
I didn’t tell anyone, at first, about my plan to go to Vet School. No one except Jesse, that is, and I fully expected him to laugh at me. Instead, he listened . . .
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December 05, 2008 12:08 PM EST --
It was 1989, and after three Christmases without my son, he was home again. Ten years old now, he seemed lost in the new world he had found. His mother was now a stranger to him and engaged to another . . .
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July 30, 2008 11:31 AM EDT --
In the weeks since I posted a sequential installment to my Rise series (apart from Hannah and Her Blue Sky Eyes and A Ghost in My Path), my life has been a bit tumultuous and I could not focus on the . . .
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August 11, 2008 05:41 PM EDT --
Not long after I returned to Virginia from Montana, I had begun dating John, the friend with whom I had a brief affair while married to Sam. Soon after that, he moved away, but we continued our relationship . . .
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