It’s always been about control. I read a lot, especially about narcissism. As a child, I used books to escape. Now, I read to understand....

Legacy is often thought of as the consequences or results of past actions or events. It can also describe the lasting impression someone...

"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape." - Charles Dickens Great Expectations In our house, success was the...

What would I say to the man? I never met you. You were twenty when I was conceived, married to someone else. You knew about the...

What I lacked in time with Alby (he died when I was seven), I made up for with Felix. He was seventeen years older, but after Alby’s...

When you’re adopted, you have two mothers: your biological mother and your adoptive mother. One loses a child. One gains one. There’s an...

“And he said.. ...movies will make life seem like a fairytale.”  Anthony T. Hincks   Childhood and Isolation I grew up as the youngest in...

“If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want.” ― Roy T. Bennett The baby boom surged in the aftermath of...

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest act of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the...

“The world he thought he knew no longer made sense to him, and he began to change.” Nicholas Sparks - The Longest Ride. In my previous...

“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.” ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance Peeling away the layers of my...

" Alice laughted. "there's no use trying.' she said: 'one can't believe impossible things." Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll I...

"I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours."Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 I read Alice in Wonderland as a kid, it...

Growing up in a narcissistic hierarchy was like navigating an obstacle course. The supporting characters in my adoptive mother’s drama...

The old saying, "They broke the mould," perfectly describes my adoptive mother. She was one of a kind. While everyone can claim their...