: About Me

Who am I? If I completely knew, perhaps I would qualify to answer. I am one that has been successful and yet a failure. One that has been in love, and destroyed by it. Even so, trials foster stregnths, and weaknesses are revealed. So now, like a forest burned, small shoots crawl back amongst the ashes.

I want to be more than I am, learn from my past, and learn to carry my baggage and not let it slow me down.
I am passionate and believe in truth; an idealist but anchored to reality.

I write from experience and because it challenges me.
I can be flippant on some topics, and speak deeply on others. I am a novice author, which is very apparant in the majority of my work. However, I do believe inspiration strikes occassionally.

Who am I? I hope it's someone that is improving.
How easy is it to let life slide by unchecked. Day by day it eases by, and moments go unnoticed, until one day you wake and realize... "I am old".

I hope when that day happens, I will look back and smile.
Happy with what I've made of my life, but not forgetting lessons and how they were learned.

What will you say on that day?

Relationships & Family > Communication Issues The truth: Do we really want to hear it?

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"Can I tell you the truth?", "You promise not to get mad", or what about "Honestly?" How many times have you heard those phrases? The words that make you pause for just a second. Just long enough to raise your emotional shield and brace yourself for un-welcomed news. So how do you react when a friend, a loved one, or even a complete stranger confronts you with an uncomfortable fact? Do you immediately become enraged, cutting them off before they can explain themselves? Or do you launch into an endless string of excuses? Do you hang on every word and replay it over and over in your mind; or...

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