Day 5: My Proudest Moment (Day 5 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) My proudest moment was when my oldest daughter graduated from the NJ CARES Program. We had been through Hell as a family after she shared she was sexually abused. DYFS (NJ’s CPS) substantiated the abuse, and the prosecutor began an investigation. My daughter had a […]

Day 4: My Dream Job (Day 4 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) I have three dream jobs. One I’ve been lucky enough to experience. The other two I want to manifest within the next decade. The dream job I’ve been blessed to experience is being a stay at home mom when my kids were pre-school aged. […]

In my blog post 20 Facts About Me, I replied to a reader’s comment saying Quakerism was a thinker’s spirituality. A couple personal friends responded to me privately they feel Christianity was also a thinker’s religion, and that my comment was insulting. I wanted to write a blog to address that. First, about being offensive. […]

In Meeting For Worship this morning, our Meeting’s Clerk issued us a challenge. Since I like to blog, I’ll be blogging my challenge results instead of simply writing them down. The challenge is two-fold. First, at the end of each day, assess the day and find things to be grateful for specific to that day. Being grateful […]

Day 3: My Favorite Quote (Day 2 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) I have so many favorites, and it’s hard to narrow them down. Here’s my top five. 🙂   They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O’er lesser powers that be, But a mightier power and […]

Day 2: 20 Facts About Me (Day 2 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) I’ve had 4 weddings, but only 2 husbands. I married husband #1 at the age of 20, but that ended in a nullity, which is when the state legally dissolves a marriage instead of simply ending it; it’s as if the marriage legally never existed. That’s not […]

I have big plans for this blog, yet I started it over a year ago and have only made a handful of posts. I have situations in my life that make it – shall we say, different? – than most people I encounter, and I love to write. Maybe doing a 30 Day Blog Challenge will […]

I was raised the daughter of an independent fundamental Baptist pastor, and grew up with very conservative thoughts and ideals. In my early 20s, it occurred to me that I believed as I did because it’s what my father believed, and I wasn’t sure which were really part of my own belief system. I took […]

  Hi Everyone, Most of you know some of what has been going on in my life these past couple months, and some of you know most of what has been going on this past week, so I’m emailing all of my friends, family, and acquaintances to get everyone current.  This is a long letter, […]