Child Abuse

  • What you don’t see

    Someone recently sent me an email and talked about how “brave” I was to have this site out here, and how strong I must be to own what happened to me the way I do on here. My response, other than being very humbled and honored, was to tell this person that it’s not as…

  • Overcoming

    You know what? I was eating my lunch and the screensaver came on my PC this afternoon. My screensaver in XP is set to randomly show pictures from the My Pictures folder, and I put a bunch of different pictures from different trips in there. Now normally that isn’t exactly news worthy, or even blog…

  • Makes you angry

    This story about the newly released documents from the New Jersey Child Welfare system are very sad. I know children service administrations try to do the best they can but, obviously, they need to do better. No child should be put in these situations by the very people who are supposed to be protecting them.

  • Feeling Better

    Thanks for the supportive comments on that last post. After spending the weekend away from work and away from the stresses of searching for a new job, I feel much more in control and much less fearful. The fear and uncertainty will probably creep back, but now I know the best way to handle it…

  • Unsafe

    I went to bed last night, and woke up this morning with a very strange feeling. It’s a feeling I haven’t had in a long time but that I know all too well. I feel very unsafe. No, it’s not war, terrorism or anything like that. Those things may make me feel unsafe in one…

  • Step by Step

    From a comment below: “The journey of a 1,000 miles goes step by step and starts with the first step, everything else remains locked in your imagination.” Recovering from abuse is just like that, you take each step one at a time and you don’t really know where the journey will lead you, but it…