Why you should take a breath (or more) before sharing that

October 10, 2023
grievances
I follow the posts of a FB friend who is a psychologist.  A recent post got my attention because it involves one of the most destructive things to any relationship:...
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10 Comments · Opinion

Let them be wrong about you

September 6, 2023
let-them-be-wrong
It's a beautiful summer day on our spectacularly colorful patio as I write this. Ah, the beauty of California! A friend and I were talking recently about how...
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10 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

How endings are not such a bad thing, after all

July 15, 2023
endings
There are no beginnings unless there are endings. Well, except for birth. That's the uber-beginning. But endings are natural. Endings of all kinds. And they're...
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13 Comments · Blog

How DNA can unlock family mysteries

June 26, 2023
DNA
Who hasn't wondered where they are from? About their family history? Their ethnic background? About their DNA? This is the Sicilian town my mother's family is...
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Leave a Comment · Blog, Travel

It really IS all about the consequences

December 27, 2022
consequences
I haven't always made the best decisions in my life. Not the best decisions for me OR the best decisions, period. So let me make that perfectly clear. Also, I do...
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8 Comments · Opinion, Spirituality

What does it mean to be the black sheep?

March 23, 2022
black-sheep
Black sheep syndrome. It's that feeling that you don't belong. That you are different. That one of these people in your group is not like the others and it's...
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10 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

Generational pain and the legacy of immigration

December 2, 2021
Ragu
I am the granddaughter of Sicilian immigrants, who left all they knew at the turn of the 20th century to forge a new life in a strange country. They did not speak...
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21 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

Don’t kid yourself: inherited pain is real

September 22, 2021
inherited-pain
Inherited Pain Children who were abandoned grow up to love people who abandon them. This stopped me in my tracks with its truth. Inherited pain is...
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6 Comments · Blog

Can you ever really go home again?

July 27, 2020
go-home
When I was not even 21 I left my hometown of Rochester, NY (the suburban town of Irondequoit, to be exact and EAST Irondequoit, to be precise.)  I left to start a new...
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15 Comments · Blog, Travel

Is your family crazier than mine?

January 17, 2020
crazy-family
Every time I think my family has the corner on dysfunction I learn that other families I know have it even worse. From publicly throwing each other under the bus to...
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7 Comments · Blog

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