Sometimes I feel like life itself is "out to get me." Things seem to come out of no where and smack me up beside my head. People that I loved and trusted, people I had been good to, betrayed me. Broke my heart. I sometimes joke that my family won the "Jerry Springer family of…
Words to live by right here y'all!
About this time of year, people get into a cleaning frenzy in the spaces that they occupy. Whether it's a 3000 sf Victorian with 4 bedrooms, or a 1 bedroom apartment, we throw open the windows, and commence "Spring Cleaning." Some folks do this twice a year - Spring, and Fall - and, God bless…
I recently received the following letter that a woman wanted to post on her blog. She asked me if she should post it. I understand fully why she would want to post it to her personal blog, knowing that her abusive husband, soon to be ex-husband, would read it. I know that deep desire to…
A research study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24000799 showed that people who cheat receive a positive, not negative, reinforcement that we might call “duping delight.” This study was cited in Time Magazine which says in part: It turns out, however, that all of us may get a little boost when we cheat, and researchers showed for the first time…
Today I received the following e mail from the VINE victims notification services which keeps me informed about anything to do with my son's legal status, coming up for parole, or a new charge or anything else to do with his criminal records. A while back I was notified that he had had a bench…
I don't for one minute think that every person in prison for even a violent crime is actually guilty of that crime. What the percentage of people who are either wrongly convicted of a crime, or “cop a plea” for a reduced sentence on the chance they would be wrongly convicted and receive a very…
What are the effects on the family when the offender comes out of prison and comes home? I found an interesting hand book for social workers, prison employees, parole officers, etc. and others who work with offenders. It encourages the “system” to engage the family members to take the released offender back into their…
Did you ever have a “gut feeling” about someone? I have frequently had some sort of “gut feeling” about several people who later turned out to be offenders, some seriously, including murder, and pedophilia, who is now doing Life without Parole./p> There are others though that I just didn’t like and it turned out that…
There were times when I felt like I was in a canoe trying to escape a flood, and my biological sons, Patrick and Andrew, were in the canoe with me. But instead of helping me paddle, they were chopping holes in the bottom of the canoe. Eventually the canoe sank and we had to swim…
