Louder Than the Voices

 I truly hope there are people out there who can say they have never in their lives been bullied. I am also truly hoping that if those people are out there it is not because they have always been the bully. When we think of bullying, I am sure many times our thoughts go to those not so great school days when someone made you feel like you didn't belong. I hate the fact that bullying is such a big problem yet today and that it seems like more kids than ever are being affected by it. I feel this is one place where technology has made life worse instead of better. When I was a kid and would have a run-in with one of my bullies, I knew I could come home. Home, where there was love. Home, where the bullies couldn't reach them because nobody could come in my house uninvited. Unfortunately, thanks to social media, pretty much anyone can be in your house nowadays, they are just a click away. And because of that word "frienemy", I am afraid for some, there just is no peace.  I...

Happy Valentine's Day eve!     I hope this week has been good for you. Mine has been eventful but good. I had to have a colonoscopy and an upper GI last Friday and the end result (sorry, pun wasn't intended) was, "If there were a magazine for colon's, your picture would be in it". Well, okay then. I thought that was pretty good, no polyps, no ulcers, no hernias and then to top it off, those of you have been around for a while knows I was diagnosed with UC in 2011 and had a bad time of it including multiple hospitalizations until 2018 when I learned to control it with diet, stress management and exercise. The result? Yesterday there was NO SIGNS OF UC!!! That is not even supposed to be possible but I did it. My friend Mike got me on the right path of what to take to heal and to learn the things I couldn't have if I want to keep it under control (Thank you so much, Mike, I am forever grateful for all your research and devotion to helping me!) .   The doctor said...

 Sadly, looking back, it has been almost a year since I have written on my blog. I kinda let the "do something" get out of control and I have finally worked on getting through that. I have a friend who I also visited as a lifecoach for a while, Teresa McCloy, who always uses the term "hair on fire". After months of meeting with her, reading her new book (Do What Matters-available on Amazon), and now going through it a second time with Andrew, I know I was very much going through life with my hair on fire. So now, I am going through life with singed hair, lol It takes a lot of courage and faith to jump into new things, but it also takes a lot of courage and faith to know when to say I need to stop the roller coaster. Actually, that is a really good analogy. Have you ever been on a roller coaster and really wanted to be off of it, as in NOW? I haven't, I love roller coasters and though they can be scary, for me, it is a bit like when my cat gets just scared enough...