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A Reconciliation

by Carolyn on February 15, 2010

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It feels eerily the same as when I was ten. Waiting for a phone call that’s not coming.  Wondering what I did wrong.  Thinking that maybe the last time we talked I wasn’t nice enough, didn’t seem interested enough in his life, or that maybe somehow I upset him.  That internal dialogue is whispering through [...]

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Self Destruct?  Not Tonight.

by Carolyn on November 14, 2009

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I can feel it coming.  Can you? My self destruction is looming in the corner.  Taunting me.  Ready to take over at  my slightest concession.  This is what I do.  It’s what I’ve done.  It’s who I’ve been. I’ll tell you a story. There once was a girl who had her whole future laid in [...]

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The daycare dilemma

by Carolyn on August 17, 2009

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I go back to work in less than a month.  My maternity leave is coming to an end and I’m excited to re-enter the land of adults, terribly sad to leave my little monkeys and petrified I won’t be able to balance my life all at the same time. But really, it’s time.  Us Canadian [...]

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Worthy of my scar

by Carolyn on June 25, 2009

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I’m fine, thanks. Don’t worry about me. I’m good… really. We’ve all said them. Those words that tell others that we are fine and thereby don’t need their sympathy, support, care or concern. Even when sometimes we do. Why is that? A fear of vulnerability? A need to always appear strong? Or maybe a sense [...]

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Being an acronym is great

by Carolyn on June 25, 2009

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Are you an ACOD (adult child of divorce)? I am. I think being an acronym is great. If I could have chosen any acronym, I might have chosen something a little more glorious, like a VIP or BFF. But I also could have done worse. I could be an SOB or worse still a POS! [...]

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