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I am about to be sixty. Writing has been one of my best hobbies since high school. I also like to sketch, swim, and play with our granddaughters. I like pets and babies, because they never hurt anyone. The most important thing that ever happened to me was

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Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: How clutter affects my life and personality issues: 1 of 4

Clutter is another name for my marriage partner! It is safe to say we are close companions. We are not happily married, however. One year we missed our family Christmas trip due to a bad sinus infection. (Hoarding causes sickness!) I make it a practice to be thankful for negative things, because they inevitably result in som...
Religion & Spirituality > Christianity (Other) Giants of Cain: 1 of 2

In order to understand what is meant by the Giants of Cain, we must remember that he was an offspring of Adam and Eve. Because Adam did not correct his wife and took the forbidden fruit, Satan gained access into not only Adam's but all human genealogy. There are two areas in which Satan gains ground in our lives. One is invo...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenthood Transforming your parenting role when your children become adults: 6 of 8

Many people are so excited when their children finally leave home. They immediately think, "Free at last, free at last; now we can pick up where we left off." Parents of a functional family often feel just that way. But what happens when a child leaves because they have felt dominated, controlled or rejected, or that their p...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Rock-bottom: 19 of 25

Born in the season of sleeping, Raised by the time of new birth; Jesus found me weeping And brought me from Depths of the earth.
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Living with sexual addiction: 7 of 9

Sexual addiction, including pornography, prostitution, same sex attraction and even masterbation is an obsessive-compulsive disorder yielding emotional, psychological, spiritual and intellectual abuse. - All of these have contributed towards our family's dysfunctional problems. I am the wife. My husband was, himself, a victi...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Baby Accessories Things you need for your first baby: 19 of 23

To consider what you need for your first baby, you have to go back to how you give birth. Your baby will be much happier if she is born as naturally as possible. Therefore, you have to fight to have the kind of birth you choose. Make sure you have thought it through carefully, and vocalize your choices to your doctor or midw...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Childbirth & Labor Natural childbirth and home-birthing for non-hippies: 10 of 11

Let me, an ex-hippie, tell the story of how I gave birth for the first time. After suffering a miscarriage with my first pregnancy in Dorchester, Massachusetts, I was on my way to the Farmer's Market via subway when I noticed what looked like a newborn across the isle. Both mother and babe appeared completely peaceful, and a...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Childbirth & Labor Why giving birth is a labor of love: 15 of 15

I had always wanted to have all my children at home. I used to take drugs, so having them at home would make it impossible for me to damage my babies through pharmaceutical intervention. Having made it through our first two children's births, I knew I could make it a third time. I also cherished the idea of keeping the famil...
Relationships & Family > Crisis Support (Other) Trauma: Beginning the road to recovery: 6 of 6

Johnny's Angels Once when my husband was teaching math at a low security youth prison, a young man came up to him after class and asked, "Would you be my Dad?" My husband, himself on the receiving end of an emotionally detached father who was imprisoned in his own pain, was perhaps trying to overcompensate for this neglect b...
Education > Homeschooling Homeschooling: Shadow siblings: 6 of 6

"OH, NO! Dad's being moved to another church already? But I'm not ready to move!" These were words spoken about every two to three years in our home. My hubby was a United Methodist preacher, and due to his outspoken methods, frequent moving was our way of life. Thus we decided to home-school our three children from the get-...