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A couple years ago I was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by a violent childhood. This is my journey, not to 'normal' but to 'ME.'
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Why Penny Was The Best Cat In The World (#1) – or – Stupid People I Pass On The Way To Work
(pastels on dollar store paper)This post would be entirely different had I not just seen what I did while I walked to work. It also would have been posted earlier.I saw a woman walking her cat on a leash.Actually, I don’t mind that act at all. Pen...
9-11 Remembered
I figured, why be cliché and do my 9/11 memories the day of? Why not do it, the day after! Because not every NYC blog has to do a retrospective on the same day, does it?Yes, I was working that day. It was while I was temping, trying to ‘find mysel...
The Cats of My Life: Penny
After her death, I went to two different therapists. One, a grief counselor specializing in the human/animal bond and the other one of the leaders in interpersonal therapy who dealt mostly with dysthymia (constant low-grade depression). Both agreed:...
In The Beginning - Flashbacks
I think it was 2004 when I began to realize something was up. My cat died. She was my life – my little Penny. Only eleven years old. It was hard, really hard. She had been my constant since the age of fifteen or so, since I returned from camp...
