Tag: mother
member name: Audrey F.
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February 02, 2007 06:10 PM EST --
To all those of you who supported me with your kindness and your prayers the past couple of weeks while my mom underwent surgery two remove two brain tumors, I wanted to let you know that we finally got . . .
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January 18, 2007 01:29 AM EST --
For the past week and a half I have been in a state of crisis. It began Saturday, January 6th, when my mom called to tell me that she'd had an MRI that showed she had two brain tumors. . . .
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January 21, 2007 11:27 AM EST --
I spoke to my mom yesterday for the first time since her neurosurgery. It was a joy to talk to her finally, but she sounded so weak, though she said she was fine. My brother, Jeffrey, told . . .
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May 17, 2009 05:06 PM EDT --
For those of you who don't know, in January, 2007, my mother had to have neurosurgery to have two what turned out to be benign brain tumors removed. At the time her neurousurgeon said he got . . .
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January 18, 2007 05:04 PM EST --
I wish for...
A father who takes care of me instead of one I have to take care of
A father who looks at me with love and gentleness in his eyes instead of with need and fear
A father who doesn't . . .
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July 19, 2007 12:26 PM EDT --
What's that expression? Will wonders never cease? Well, no, it seems they won't. MY MOM STOOD UP TO MY DAD and IS coming to visit. One day later than planned (tomorrow instead . . .
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January 28, 2007 12:23 PM EST --
In seventh grade I tried out for the school musical, "Hello Dolly". When I walked into the room where my music teachers, Mr. Norton and Mr Leonard, were waiting to audition me, my legs . . .
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January 25, 2007 02:26 AM EST --
When I was about 8 or 9, I was home from school with a fever. It must have been late January or early February because one day my mom came upstairs to my room with an early Valentine's Day gift. . . .
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April 08, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --
I try to focus outwards
and find myself looking within
seeking to find some humor
but unable to muster a grin.
What's in there, I wonder
that's causing me to feel so sad,
lone, . . .
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May 16, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
I wrote this in February, 1991. Larry was my boyfriend at the time.
Sometimes I don't know who I
am when I am with
Larry. Like Friday at his apartment. I
woke . . .
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April 10, 2007 04:05 PM EDT --
My mother used to come to visit me every year. She’d stay in my apartment, sleep on the fold out couch in the living room. She’d take a walk to get coffee in the morning while I did my . . .
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April 19, 2007 06:19 PM EDT --
Yesterday when I left therapy, I felt alive, just for an instant, but for that instant, I felt this bubbling pleasure welling up inside me, before some negative thought that I was unable to catch in time, . . .
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May 10, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
I have a special Gather friend. We "met" about a month after I'd first joined when she began posting comments on my articles and poems and I reciprocated and began posting . . .
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May 11, 2008 12:09 PM EDT --
I love you, mother,
I do, I really do,
But you were so rarely there for me
It's hard for me to celebrate you.
I needed you to protect me
I needed you to care . . .
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July 02, 2007 05:25 PM EDT --
I was planning on writing my latest "five positive things about me article", as I got tagged by April B. That plan disintegrated yesterday afternoon when I spoke with my mother and . . .
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August 05, 2007 02:22 PM EDT --
Sunday. It's cloudy and gray. The sun is beginning to peek through the clouds-I can see it creating shadows on my balcony. I just read an article by Karen T. that really struck a . . .
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August 19, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
With this week's prompt, "Laughter", we are supposed to list things that ALWAYS make us laugh. I have always wanted to have a foolproof list of things to fall back on when I need . . .
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February 19, 2007 08:55 PM EST --
I have been seeing black lately.
Where did the colors go?
I look outside and see the blue sky and bright sunshine
yet I don't feel it.
I don't feel the colors and
I don't see them either. . . .
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March 03, 2007 02:02 AM EST --
My teeth ache, my head feels like someone put a clamp on it and tightened it as far as it goes.
My heart is pounding and deep in the center of my stomach this terror is growing.
This has been a hard . . .
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August 01, 2007 02:17 PM EDT --
I was in great spirits all day yesterday. I got up in the morning with little problem, worked out, showered, dressed, ate breakfast and went off to complete my to do list---9 am: Appointment with . . .
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