Pregnant at 16 (Part 3)

When I left off in my story, I had set my husband free to go after the beautiful girl he had never gotten over and he was having trouble being cut loose.  He wanted to talk to me about why being “set free” by me didn’t feel as good as he thought it would, but [...]

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What price Integrity?

Recently I was surprised to hear someone speaking about how he had entertained actions that at their core, were if not unethical, certainly lacked Integrity.  He reasoned that he had been tempted to lie in several situations, due to the current market conditions and all of the difficulty inherent in what is going on in [...]

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Pregnant at 16 (Part 2)

The summer after we graduated was a difficult time, I think for everyone in both families.  Here I was the youngest of three daughters and had the first grandchild on both sides of the family.  He was a beautiful baby and my mother just adored him.  My mother-in-law didn’t like me (after all I had [...]

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“I’m 16 and I think I’m pregnant”,

I said to the doctor I had found in the phone book.  He looked almost as young as me.  He had just started his medical practice.  I felt I could read his mind, “O God…why me?”
 
Of course he wanted to know if I had told my parents about my concern.  HA!  As I have said, [...]

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“Grief Counseling” The story of my mom, continued

Well It’s now 4:46 in the morning and I still feel like writing.  Hope I’m not breaking any blogging rules but here goes anyway and I’ll remember to hit “enter” twice between each paragraph this time.
 
So mom knows that her time is short and she just continues to say her sweet little prayers each morning [...]

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Editing my “Post”

I just hit “Publish” after finishing my story and then clicked on “Visit Site” and saw that as I wrote I thought I was creating a lot of small paragraphs but it appears as one long unbroken narrative and I’m sorry that it is hard to read that way.  
 
I am still learning the best [...]

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“Grief Counseling” Part 7 “Mom”

 
It’s very early in the morning and I am awake…wide awake.  Before I go back into the past to tell you about my mom and her sweet passing, I want to share something with you.

I got a call from my wonderful daughter night before last.  She is always so upbeat and bubbling with happiness.  She’s [...]

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“Grief Counseling” Part 6

As my mom grew older, I believed that she would get to a place where she couldn’t walk around and would be confined to a wheel chair.  I found a little house and with her help, bought it in March of 98.  I set about doing things that would be of service to her when [...]

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The Road to “Grief Counseling” Part 5

So to continue my story…
The next morning the Hospice nurse came by and I told her my fear about dad waking up to that pain again and that I wanted her to hook him up with a Morphine Pump.  For some reason she couldn’t do that but she told me she would leave some Liquid [...]

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The road to “Grief Counseling” Part 4

Many pregnant women choose to have “home births” for a lot of reasons.  I would like to talk now about “home deaths”.  In our past, most people died at home until the last century where hospitals became the place to die.  I don’t believe it was ever the best place and should have only been [...]

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