I'm just glad to know some people like what I do. I sing mainly to stave off depression. But sometimes, when you put your stuff out there, people can be toxic. So I truly do appreciate those who are kind and respectful, and genuinely enjoy my efforts. After last week's hellish 4 day handyman experience in my house, I really needed to sing a blues song. :D
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Well, it’s probably the way I heard the story, as if it was solely due to the religion, that made me think it was BS. It sounded like something that came out of the Flash Gordon movie circa 1980. :D
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Thanks for listening! I appreciate it!
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I was never a member, but my husband was. I remember thinking it was a crock when I heard the Mormon Seagulls story… and the stuff about garments and baptisms for the dead. And the way the church divides families made me think it wasn’t much of a Christ-like church, either.
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I am a fan of mint tea. Especially when I have a cold.
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I love this about Germany. Lots of textile free spas!
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I remember him. He was a very kind and intelligent soul. He was one of the very first to take me seriously when I first shared our Mormon slanted parental alienation story. I seem to recall he was a great artist, too. I wish he hadn't left us so early.
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Bravo, summer... So many "right wing" conservative types claim to care about Christianity. And yet, they have some of the least "Christ-like" attitudes I have ever seen toward their fellow man. I have a relative who gave up alcohol and found Jesus some years ago. He's become a total xenophobe, preaching about Jesus and the evils of swearing as he totes around his .45 cali
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We had a quiet Fourth of July in Germany. Our big fireworks day is New Year's Day, which is the only day Germans are allowed to set off fireworks. During the height of the pandemic, fireworks weren't allowed at all, because they didn't want people going to the hospital for injuries during COVID... However, when fireworks do go on here, sometimes it seems a lot crazier than I've ever seen it
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bradley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You're not one of "them". > > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo OMG... that's hilarious!
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The Army is a small world! My husband and aunt’s bro were both in the National Guard. When my husband told me he was going to the conference, my aunt said her brother was also going to a conference in the same city, at the same time. We figured they would be at the same place. So they were looking for each other, but in the wrong places. My husband was a federalized (working full time on
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I can relate to wishing you’d met the right person earlier. I guess, the older I get, the more I think there’s a right time and place for some things. Even if you had met when you were younger and still sober, you would have been different people. It might not have been so right. As much as I despise my husband’s ex wife, I also realize that she helped make him who he is. If we had m
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I often can’t believe my luck, to be totally honest. I never dated much myself. I briefly had a boyfriend in high school, but he turned out to be gay. I was completely single and totally celibate. Then I met my husband online when I was 27 years old. I knew nothing about his family situation for three months. One day, he sent me a long email explaining everything going on. He was sure
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Trust me, he knows how to pour! I think he was in shock because the champagne cork almost flew out and hit him. It was under a lot of pressure.
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schrodingerscat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In the real world, > good parenting still works. > > What if kids don’t have parents? > > They get adopted. > > Or Foster parents. > > Kids need good parents. > > But most parents today are too busy arguing with > strangers on the internet about pointl
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I can’t either. He treats me like gold. He doesn’t have a mean or irresponsible bone in his body. I really don’t think it was her intention to get divorced. She thought he would back off and go back to obeying her. She didn’t know him as well as she thought she did. When he didn’t dance to her tune, she smeared him to everyone, including his own parents. Ah well…. Here is a m
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Living well is the best revenge. This is us on our very recent Regent cruise in the Baltics…. No, there’s no music, but there is champagne, inappropriate jokes, and laughter! I am grateful Ex dumped him so he can be with me. <3 https://youtu.be/i9IV_ejz-ko
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We are lucky to have found each other. Although of course he's not perfect, he's an absolutely wonderful man, and it pisses me off that she took advantage of his kind and generous nature the way she did. She abused him in all ways, including the ways that are very difficult to talk about. I didn't know about that part of the story until we'd been married for 15 years and a urologist saw the ev
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I think I can relate. As I've mentioned before, my husband made a bad decision when he married his ex wife. They weren't LDS when they wed, but decided to convert about three years before they divorced. I always thought converting to Mormonism was a bad decision for my husband to make. But really, it was just one thing that happened because he made a bad decision to marry his ex wife.
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My husband and his ex wife divorced in 2000. At the time, they were both fairly new Mormon converts, and she was taking her son and their two daughters to church. She used the church as a parental alienation tool, then remarried and had two more kids with her subsequent husband, who also converted to Mormonism for her. As the people on this message board who know our story can attest, she we
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I am sad to hear about this. She was always kind and supportive. All of the best good vibes to her family and friends.
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Thanks for the shout out, Susan! ;)
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My husband’s ex wife tried to get his daughters sealed to her third husband. Church officials said no. They also refused to give her a temple divorce, because neither she nor #3 were temple worthy. And, she was told that even if they did give them a cancellation of sealing, my husband’s daughters and former stepson (who was also sealed to him) would NOT be sealed to #3 under any circumstan
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Nightingale, thank you for those beautiful words. We gave Arran his name because we visited Scotland for the first time in November 2012. It was for our tenth wedding anniversary, which was an especially big deal to us. My husband’s first marriage had ended just shy of ten years, so we were excited to be celebrating ten happy years together. And I wanted to see Scotland, where a lot of my
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Thank you. It’s never an easy decision to make, but we realized that even if we somehow fixed last night’s issue, it would be a very temporary solution. I am a big believer in knowing when to stop prolonging suffering and forestalling the inevitable. We were delighted to get five good months with him, thanks to the chemo (which, for dogs, is not nearly as debilitating as it is for humans).
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Thank you. Arran’s predecessor was a beagle/basset hound mix. He had such a great personality. I never thought we’d top him, but Arran was just as colorful. I hate this part of having pets, but as Queen Elizabeth II said, “Grief is the price we pay for loving.” Or she said something along those lines. And I am glad canine cancer is out of our lives again…. For now.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izXROTs0nCk A few of you follow me on Facebook, and if you do, you probably know that for the past few months, our beloved rescue dog, Arran, has been battling B cell lymphoma. This morning, he let us know that he was ready to join his beagle buddy, Zane, at the Rainbow Bridge. Zane also had lymphoma, but his was much more aggressive. We lost him on August 31
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Very nice post! Congratulations!
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The JWs are pretty active in Germany. We have been visited by them several times over the 8 years we've been here this time. They're always polite when we say "Nein, danke." I heard about this shooting yesterday. The violence of the incident surprises me, since people have to go through a lot to be allowed to carry a weapon in Germany. But I'm not surprised he was a disgruntled
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Thank you so much! That makes my day! I just got a new computer, so I had some technical difficulties for awhile. But now, it’s coming back together again, and maybe I’ll try sone new stuff soon.
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