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19: Donuts
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<![CDATA[Connie came into my life at nine. He was a school system psychologist in Bradenton, Florida, and responsible for setting up testing and therapy for me while I was in elementary school. Rosharch ink blots, speech therapy, California Achievement Tests, math trials. My mother told him secrets about me. He took my mother to dinner. […]
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18: Just one more little monster
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<![CDATA[I can handle sticks and stones.But those words still break my bones.
Dr. Raines (my psychiatrist) and I have begun to talk about my stepfather. Yes folks, I didn’t just get one abusive father, I got two! I won the bad dad lottery! Ahem.
My stepfather (man, I got a lot of ‘splainin’ to do here) […]
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One more reason to like the Kid
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Good on Ken Griffey, Jr.: 600 homers and no ‘roids! But I found out today that Ken and I have something else in common: we both survived <a target=”_blank” href=”suicide“>suicide, although Ken’s attempt happened when he was much younger than I.
Read the whole story at Furious Seasons.
<a target=”_blank” href=”Ken Griffey, Jr.“>Learn more about Ken […]
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This Ain’t Hollywood
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U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant T-Bo Twiggs was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder related to combat, entered into a treatment of therapy and medications, and was sent back into combat.
That’s what we do with Marines - we patch them up and send them back.
T-Bo went back four more times, doing a total of four […]
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“You learn to just stand there and take it.”
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The N&O reported today that jury selection began this afternoon for the trial of Lynn Paddock, who is accused of first-degree murder in the death of her adopted son Sean, 4. The paper had earlier reported on the testimony of Paddock’s stepdaughter, Jessy, before a North Carolina Superior Court; testimony that should have chilled me. […]
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War wounded
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The N&O profiled 20-year-old Iraqi war veteran Michael Beck on Sunday, a young man literally shredded by war. He went to Iraq as a guardsman - a guardsman! - and came back in pieces:
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Kimberly Dozier’s take on surviving trauma
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CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was on CNN today talking about her new book, Breathing the Fire. In two interviews I watched with her today on that channel, she spoke about how constantly speaking about her experience, and writing her feelings, memories and experiences helped her deal with the trauma.
She was asked by both CNN […]
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US government drugging deportees
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Imagine a country where if your were found to be living illegally, you would get thrown out on your ear. You would be a piece of trash, or worse - an animal without a soul, something to be abused and tossed into a crate. If you protested, or flinched, you could be labeled a “problem,” […]
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Las Vegas sucks, musically speaking
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Last week my husband and I were in Vegas, and a lot of the time, I was miserable. Why? Well, I’ll tell ya. Nothing kills my mood faster than an overdose of unfeeling, commercially processed tunes, and Vegas blares them from every corner, ledge, window, side speaker, slot machine, corridor, and bathroom speaker. You cannot, […]
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Trying out PlayTagger
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The folks at del.icio.us have made a simple script available that allows you to embed a playable mp3 link into a webpage. So let’s see if I can get this to work. For about a year now I’ve been very tuned in to netlabels, those gorgeous little purveyors of music on the net that grant […]
