A mom and a stepmom share stories, ideas, friendship and family
Posted in Quotes on Feb 29th, 2008
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a [...]
Posted in Communication, Peacemaking on Feb 28th, 2008
Pain looks different from the inside than it does from the outside.
From the inside when we act out in pain, we see ourselves as victims. From the outside, when we act out in pain, we look like monsters.
Outsiders who haven’t lived through a similar kind of suffering don’t see the pain; they see the actions.
The [...]
Posted in Quotes on Feb 27th, 2008
Before me peaceful
Behind me peaceful
Under me peaceful
Around me peaceful
– From the Navajo War God’s Horse Song
Sometimes when I’m scared or stressed out, I recite this to myself. I found it a book about teaching poetry to children when I was an elementary school teacher years ago. Except the way I remembered it was like [...]
“The word ‘love’ is so overused in our culture today and frequently misunderstood. I do believe, however, that the fountainhead or foundation for success in [...]
Posted in Communication on Feb 26th, 2008
Back in the early days when Kathy and I weren’t getting along, I read her blog a lot. A lot. And her book, too.
A stepmom blogger recently found from watching her blog stats that her stepkids’ mom was reading her blog, and that she was visiting the blogs of the stepmoms she linked to. [...]
