Life on Pause: How could I have been so blind?

  As I continue to become more aware of exactly the situation I was in, I ask myself – how come I couldn’t see all of the signs before? I knew that things weren’t great, but I had convinced myself that I was over-reacting or that I was just sensitive – which he often told

Inspirational Poetry

              I AM NOT MY PAIN I am not my pain, because love is all I have to gain. There’s an urge within my heart, to no longer feel the darkness of separation when you tried to break it apart. There’s music within my soul, and hope that radiates

Life on Pause: A World in Despair

I am not quite sure what is going on with the world at this moment, but I do know that so many are hurting across the world – and there is a lot of resentment and anger in many people’s hearts…. Last night, a resident of Nice, France just plows hundreds of people over during

Life on Pause: I was told that I was “Normal” today.

So, I am not crazy after-all. In fact, I am normal. And I am addressing the issues that I had faced… I am just a person experiencing the aftermath of being hurt…for so long. Anyone who has been in my shoes can agree that our fears and feelings can sometimes make us feel quite crazy.

Life on Pause: Inspirational Novel

For those of you who have been following my blog, “Life on Pause,” it now will be a book for  you to add to your collection. Life on Pause has been a theraputic blog that I have been posting in for over a year or so. It is  a collection of my thoughs at recent

Life on Pause: I was told, “You’re Going to Hell.”

It’s been about a year and half now that I left a pretty difficult atmosphere. It didn’t start out all terrible, but through the years, the fog got thicker. I was told some pretty horrific things and got called some pretty nasty names… I was put down more than once. But I think one of

Life on Pause: What is Your Purpose in Life?

I’m not much of a daytime television type of person, but on my lunch break during the week, I watch a favorite soap opera of mine and then sometimes – a talk show called, “The Talk” on CBS. Most of the time, it is usually gossip about entertainment, but the other day, they actually discusssed

Happy Fourth of July!

Artwork: This year’s fair entries

These are my entries for this year’s Moultrie-Douglas County Fair 2016 Fine Arts category. I have been entering it almost every year since I was about 19 or 20 years old. So I’ve been entering it for about 15 years.

Life on Pause: Checking in, after checking out.

Healing is hard.I guess nobody never said it would be easy….  After much restrospection, talking it out and rearranging my life – I feel like I have finally begun to “check-in,” again. For so long, I spent so much time living on eggshells, worrying about if I was going to make someone mad, trying to