TRacr14

16 May 2014

Bullying a Bully (2)

 School dragged along at a snails pace all day. My first period, and English two class, felt like it would never end. It was hard enough trying to stay awake with the few hours of sleep I got every night. And the teacher's droning voice did little to ease...

TRacr14

13 May 2014

Bullying a Bully

Can we let go of the past? Can we go on to the future?

Okay. So let's just say that you were having a crappy day and at school it only seems to get worse. Would you respond violently? Scratch that. Let's pick a target. Okay, so we have a bully - we'll just call him Bundy L. Levy for fun - and a bully always s...

ACCooper

11 Nov 2013

To Wait For Things To Change

His love has been shown With hurried kisses Balled up fists, Illicit cross town visits Forty years of foolishness, stark regret on both sides, bruises and black eyes and futile halfhearted tries It has taken its toll and I am far too old, To wait for thin...

BraveGirl

18 Sep 2013

Be Happy

Be happy, he said. Like it's that simple.

"Be happy," he said. Like it's that simple. Like I haven't been trying. Like saying "be happy" erases the fact that I'm being put on the back-burner again, being used as a back-up plan, a last-resort when there's nothing better to do. Saying "be happy" is...

bri54

27 May 2013

One Door Closes . . .

The first steps taken to get out of a love-less marriage

One Door Closes. . . I spent the last six months in my failure-of-a-marriage, tying up loose ends. Divesting myself of all that I'd gained in twenty years. We all accumulate things, to keep under the banner of, “what-if ?” We'd had all our hurtful argumen...

fallingdove

4 Mar 2013

A Horse

A sad story of a long marriage

Walt was a handsome Norwegian cowboy. His wife, my Aunt Pat, was a squat Native American woman with hazel eyes.He'd cheated on her for years, and was standing before a judge asking for a divorce so he could be with Mary. When the legalities and accounts s...

frogprince

17 Nov 2012

I Married a Soap Opera

One never knows what to expect when marying into another family. It can be fun.

I have been married for 42 years. I discovered after getting married that you never really know your in-laws until then. My wife and I went to school together, grammar school and high school. I got pulled from the normal junior high school and put in an a...

rantingsenior

20 Jun 2012

If I Badmouth My Ex In The Forest but Nobody Hears…?

WARNING!! POLITICALLY INCORRECT, FOUL, GRAPHIC IMAGES!! Zen vs. animosity.

Many years ago an acquaintance asked me, “Do you hate your ex-wife?” “Of course not!” I replied as we strolled about the grounds. “Why would you think that?” “Well,” he responded, “she deserted you for a younger man, but still got alimony, child support,...

donabdul

3 Jul 2011

Tears From Within

What ever happened to happily ever after?

Tears From Within Copyright Don Abdul ©2006 From the first moment Winning my heart with your flattering comment The warmth inside of you radiating Oh! How I loved your spontaneity Tender smile so captivating Nothing showed of your notoriety You talked the...