I thought I had long ago dealt with the trauma I experienced with Fitz’s birth. It’s not something I need to explain, it was personal and subjective and I don’t need that experience validated by anyone. I realized today, though, that that fear, which I thought was gone, is actually very much still here. It …
If I could give you all the answers, I would. If I could save you from all the hurt, I would. But if I keep you from all that the world has to give, Then I’d be denying you the chance that you have to live. If I save you from your very first heartbreak, …
Eternity lives in moments. In the most desolate and desperate situations, hope can shine and miracles do happen. Know this and be well. I remember the details with perfect clarity of that evening of Dec 23, 1997. Amanda and I were returning home on a snowmobile from a overnight cabin trip with friends in the …
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Back in October our family had a free weekend, so a last minute decision, and we ended up at the Toronto Zoo. We used to have a membership several years ago but found that we weren’t going enough to justify it. They were having a Halloween weekend, and kids…
Oct.30/17 4:30am It was an appropriately creepy Halloween time walk early this morning. The wailing north westerlies dominated the pre-dawn landscape. I hate these winds. These winds lend voices to things otherwise silent. The trees moan as they bend to their demands. Their leaves shiver on the branches. Wires scream with warning, pushed to their …
Today is just like many other days. We’re rushing around, wrangling kids, trying to get them dressed in clean clothes and fed a decent breakfast and bonus points for getting them to brush their teeth and maybe sometimes, or all the time like in my case, this side-show shit hits the fan. There may or …
Grief The house was quiet and still, where once you couldn’t escape the noise. It was mostly happy noise, not always, but it was life. Life’s noise. The ringing of the phone, the tv in the living room with the volume way up, the laughter among friends, and the screaming between sisters. That day the …
To the lost boy He approaches me with anger once again but this time I don’t back away. I stand my ground, no longer fearful of him I choose to listen. She chose you over me, anger thinly veils the absolute desperation. I can see that now. She didn’t, I respond and quickly follow up, …
Owen and Victoria Stack After a tumultuous attempt at landing in Wabush,NL our plane was redirected back to Sept Isles,QC where I had previously been waiting 10 hours. Irritated and exhausted, I released myself from the constraints of the airplane seatbelt to get off the plane once again. I looked down the aisle to see …
I have found that social media in all it’s trendy immediacy has a way of creating an emotion in me very suggestive and powerful. Only recently have I been able to decipher this as Lust and a little longer to realize the difference between Want and Lust. Here’s a brief list: – The White House: …
Elizabeth Cook 