scargosun

Hi all!  'Member me?  I am still alive and have MOVED!!!!! Please visit me at my new blog!
www.scargosun.com
I set a goal this year to move to my own domain and I FINALLY did it!  Please come see me!  I've missed you all so much!

My Mom told me today that a friend of our family slit their wrists.  My first thought was "I understand."
Is that wrong?
What I meant was that I understand the darkness that can be in our heads and that there is a careful balance of processes that keeps us from harming ourselves. Many people don't even realize this is going on.  Self preservation is just something that...

It seemed like a great idea.  My brother's girlfriend suggested we have a gingerbread house making contest.  Then we decided to have my aunt judge it when the extended family got together.  We'd make them Christmas Day while we were all together.  P...

I used to participate in Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop...when I was blogging regularly.  I still read the emails that let me know about the prompts ahead of time and one caught my eye this week.
"Write about someone who made your childhood bearable."
Now I had a good childhood, a very good childhood.  I had parents who loved me, I went to good schools and had 2 acres of woods to play in.  I was lucky.  To read those lines and if you met me,  you'd think that I didn't need anyone to make my childhood...