My mother was the only person who understood what it felt for me to be adopted. I never struggled with hate or disdain or dislike for my adoptive parents. They were my parents. Period. But I felt that it was my right to find my birth parents. Period. Because there were things I did struggle with: when I was a… View Post
I Believed in Karma
I believed in one thing, and one thing above all, most of my life. I believed in karma. I thought that if you treated people well, and asked for nothing in return, you would end up with a lot. Oh, magical thinking, I should have known better. I was gifted much in life. There is so much I have to… View Post
Prologue To A Life
What I hate most: Pity. Pity from others; and self-pity. This isn’t a story about pity. Nor is it a sad story. It is a story about a life, and a woman who began college in 1968, but still thinks she has a lifetime to live. Why say when she began college rather than the year she was born? 1968,… View Post
Pushing when I should be pulling
Push is pull; pull is push. Up is down; down is up. East is….yes, it’s west in my world. If you ask me to push a door I will invariably pull it, and vice versa. Directions—fortunately, we have GPS’s now, and I seriously love getting lost on vacation. Other times, not so much as there’s this thing called “being on time,”… View Post
A Les Mis Day, or how I lost my “perfect” credit over $9.90
My FICO score went down more than 120 points over two missed payments (that I didn’t know I missed as the bill said zero balance) of—-$4.95 a month. Yes this is all over $9.90–with fees and everything else, it came to $30. I found this out because of an alert from Credit Karma. The credit card company I owed this… View Post
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