Seriously consider the friendships in your life.



What effect do they have on your life? Negative? Positive?



Are you happy with all of them?



What kind of people do you associate with on a regular basis?



Do your friendships lift you up or bring you down?



How much influence do they have on your life?



The people you spend your time with have a major influence over how you live your life and how you spend your time.



You did not get… Continue

I just read a post on another website about personal safety, especially on college campuses. It is such an important message.



Both of my children attend Virginia Tech. My son was a freshman at VT and on his very first day of classes, a prisoner escaped from the Blacksburg jail. If I remember correctly, this prisoner killed a guard. And my son was in the dorm right next to the dorm where the first two murders occurred on April 16, 2007. And, you may know the rest of the story -- the… Continue

I now have an empty nest.



Last week I took my youngest child to college and helped set up her dorm room. It was an exhausting and hectic experience but a very productive day, to say the least.



My son is a senior at the same university. He moved back into his apartment on the same day that we moved his sister into her dorm room.



I came home to a completely empty house. For the first time in my adult life, my home is empty. My children are "grown."



I am happy… Continue

I just finished reading a post on my website with the same title as this blog title by "Concerned Wife and Mom" from TN. You may read it by visiting: http://www.womencopingwell.com/cope-blog.html.



Right now it should be the first permalink entry on the cope-blog page.



I totally agree with Concerned Wife and Mom!



I especially agree with the fact that we, as women, need to find a way to raise our sons and… Continue

I used to be a positive thinker! I didn't know to be negative, really. That was a couple decades ago, though.

Then, along came adulthood.

With adulthood came marriage.

My marriage was not the best marriage. It could have been and should have been a great marriage. But, for some reason, the sweet man I married turned into someone not so sweet.

With my husband's put-downs and all the ugliness of our marriage, I began to think…

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