Category: Relationships
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How to Escape a Repeating Time Loop
Shannon and Lorna get silly at a mother-daughter reunion. c 2008 My younger daughter, Aislinn, asked me an interesting question that changed the course I took in a personal situation. “Mommy,” she said, “what if this thing that’s happening is really another chance to do it right? What if you’ve already done this once–or a…
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Why You Can’t Read your Future for Yourself (and Sometimes for Others)
When I first began meeting “intuitives,” I heard several of them say that they could not read their own futures. I thought it was odd at the time, given that some of them had told me amazing things about my own life–right down to names, ages, locations, specific projects I was working on that I’d…
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The Policy of Truth
Shannon and Lorna, Thanksgiving 2006 in Destin– where will we be this year for Thanksgiving?! “You had something to hide; Should have hidden it, shouldn’t you? Now you’re not satisfied With what you’re being put through.” — Depeche Mode’s “Policy of Truth” Many years ago, I had a friend who had based most of his…
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5 "Effing Brilliant" People Who Spout Gems
About a decade ago, my friend Vicki Hinze had a literary agent, Helen Breitweiser, who was a blast to be around. Helen was young, hip, intelligent–and had a mouth on her. That was part of her charm. (In my opinion, at least.) One of her favorite phrases was to refer to someone’s literary masterpiece as…
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You Really Can’t Trust Anyone, Can You?
Photo by monster; creative commons license For months, I’ve noticed how many people around me have trust issues, and I’ve also noticed that these trust issues didn’t just pop up over night. They’ve been there for years, through series of relationships, maybe all the way back to childhood. They’re still there because they’ve never been…