Recently, I became familiar with the term “cycle breaker.” A Cycle Breaker is someone in your family who recognizes unhealthy familial patterns and chooses not to repeat them. I come from a long family line of alcoholics. This social disease has disrupted my family– maternally and paternally –...
As 2020 was coming to an end, I started reflecting on the past year and how it made me feel. I realized the one word that summed up everything I was writing down, was the word, “angry.” So, while this character introduction is for POSITIVITY, it is also a symbolic funeral for my anger. It is an...
Recently, I watched a video of a mama-bear and her cub climbing up a steep snow-covered mountain. As they scaled the mountain side at a quick pace, they would slip and slide back down. However, backsliding didn’t seem to phase the bear and her cub as they continued to climb. As the mother bear...
The farmer and the cowman should be friends, Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends. One man likes to push a plough, the other likes to chase a cow, But that’s no reason why they cain’t be friends. Territory folks should stick together, Territory folks should all be pals....
Last week, I packed up my dad and moved him out of his home of 45 years in Miami, OK to a one-bedroom assisted living apartment in Owasso. It’s been a long road to get to this point and I had a plan. I was organized. I was ready. What I did not anticipate was being flooded by 40-plus years of...
