Tag: rise
member name: Julie (there will always be a rainbow) G.
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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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April 26, 2008 12:54 PM EDT --
I'm about to begin my new series, "Rise" but would like to preface that with a little insight into this series.
I do not intend to send out emails this time around unless I hear from . . .
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May 11, 2008 02:21 PM EDT --
Given a choice, I always chose... neutral. I spent my childhood and teen years trying to be invisible, because I hated it when people stared. My colors were grey, black, brown, beige, even ivory... occasionally . . .
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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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June 26, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --
If you need background here, have time, and have not already read it, I would suggest reading my previous article, "Surviving Jim" as a companion to this one. Thanks!
Not . . .
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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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October 13, 2008 01:11 PM EDT --
I know I did it. I know it was NOT a dream.
I spent most of the weekend at my computer. Well, not exactly, most of the afternooons were spent in or around the pool or spa, but when I wasn't . . .
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June 17, 2009 10:51 AM EDT --
For all of you who followed my "Worthless" and "Rise" series last year...
I basically stopped writing, around the time my son became homeless last year. I did not make a connection then, but simply . . .
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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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October 08, 2008 03:25 PM EDT --
Friends, I didn't realize until today that I had somehow missed this when I posted last week's installment. It explains the "Origins of Me" part of the title...
Sleep began . . .
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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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October 21, 2008 01:06 PM EDT --
And lots of it, I am happy to say.
Less than two weeks ago, I made the decision to "split' my book in progress into two separate books, and apparently, it was a good decision. I knew that . . .
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June 16, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
I have just published Part 2 of Rise "Daddy's Girl" and have flagged it for adult content due to the description of child sexual abuse contained in it. Though I don't think it is offensive, . . .
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October 06, 2008 05:44 PM EDT --
I have been in the process of trying to rewrite some of my earliest installments of "Worthless" and have definitely made some changes, though not major ones. I'm hoping to make it read . . .
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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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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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September 25, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
After learning of Jesse’s suicide attempt, I stopped sleeping. Actually, I didn’t stop. I went to bed every night and after my nightly ritual of talking to Jesse as he sat on the end of the bed. While . . .
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