You may notice that I’ve

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

You may notice that I’ve created a little bit of a blogroll over to the right. I found this handful sites in one night of searching the internet and following link after link, looking for blogs of people who have overcome either abuse, depression, cancer or some other type of disability. If you know someone who’s blog fits the bill on that front let me know, please! It doesn’t have to be the main theme of their blog, but I want to create a list of folks who are blogging and are proof positive that we all can overcome our difficulties!

From Paradise Ali, one of the few that I’ve found so far: (Scroll down, trouble with permalinks over there!)

Fortunately, I was able to escape that cycle with the help and encouragement of other survivors who turned their pain into positive work. For all those times that I wondered and raged, “Why me!?”

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