To have a name to attach to the way you live your life, doesn’t make it any easier. Maybe it allows closure or acceptance and eventually healing or transition. I don’t know. I am just […]
Category: Unshakable Me
Thoughts, Ideas and Rants. Just everyday ramblings from a nonsensical mind
Grief – A Way of Self Help?
Ignoring Myself by Helping Others It’s been four months since my mom passed away, four months…it feels like I’ve been in this sorrow for so long, but literally, it’s only been a few weeks.I’ve not […]
Christmas Eve Letter to Heaven
This year has come to a close after what has been one of the worst of my life. We said goodbye to you only three short months ago, and it feels like only yesterday. I […]
Words of Comfort From Heaven
Mom’s Letters to Bootcamp Help Me Cope with Her Passing In the early ’90’s I left home and went into the Military. I was the youngest of three — my brother, six years older and […]
Inspiration and Resilience
Memories of the past several months swirl around me in an absolute fog. The year from Hell best describes most of the time I’ve had. So much heartache and sorrow. I cannot express how heavy […]
Is This The Beginning of the End…
It seems like forever since my fingers tapped a keyboard for something besides work. The last few months have been busy and for the most part, agonizing. With my mother’s breast cancer diagnosis, my weeks consisted […]
Keeping it Together
How do I keep it together while she battles Cancer and Dementia? I don’t even know how to begin this one. I’ve held such a heavy heart the last few weeks with the cancer diagnosis […]
The Strength to Fight…
For My Mom, My Hero My blogging began back in 2012 with the onset of my husbands Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. It became a way to communicate his treatment to the masses and it also became a […]
Anchors Aweigh Little Girl
My First Experience Adulting Hard to believe it was 28 years ago. That seems so long ago and yet I can remember it so vivid. It was 28 years ago today. This very morning so […]
Drunks and Whores Don’t Go To Heaven
Facing Social Media Judgment while on my Bourbon Journey So this here is a tricky one and I’m sure I’m not the first or last to deal with this. Such is life in this social […]
