The Tree Outside the Window (Book) - 6/24/2021 3:10:52 PM
Rose Burrow delivers a magnifent and emotionally charged novel about her main character Jill's long battle with emotional illness. Eve and David are both profesional people who have their dysfunctions and friction at home like every couple. The anger the rejection and the bullying that Jill receives from her sibling Princess drives her to be labeled not only as schizophrenic, but psychotic. The various doctors and specialists do not see the smoking gun. They treat Jill from her youth with Haldol, Lithium and therapy against her will. She seeks solace in her Crazy Suzi and numerous delinquent friends with whom she competes to be the most outrageous. Her escapades laced with cigarettes, beer, and hard drugs are the norm for her life. The more renegade the partner, the more Jill is drawn. Jill eventually is discharged and finds a man who acts as a stabilizer in her life called Eddie. Eddie comes with his own drama, but she attempts to hold a job and create a life away from her family of origin. Can she make a break with her past? Or will it overcome her and taint the relationships she has in her new clan? This realistic drama is crafted with the knowledge of mental health in our world today. It challenges us to think about our own fragility, as we pass those own through nature and nurture to all those with whom we come in contact. Kudos, Rose.
In Handcuffs (Book) - 2/26/2019 10:45:36 PM
'In Handcuffs' is a wonderful sequel continuing the story of Jill, as she stumbles her way through life. The book is a great stand-alone but, I suggest if you can, read the books in sequence. 'The Tree Outside the Window' shares Jill's childhood, but 'In Handcuffs' continues with Jill's path in life as an adult.
Still in treatment for her mental health and drug rehab, Jill is married and blessed with a baby boy, James, which she dotes on. Jill struggles with parenthood as a working, mom barely getting paid enough to cover living expenses and there are problems in her marriage.
On that note, I am not going to divulge additional tidbits of the book because I want you to read it!
R. Burrow writes a fictionalized memoir that shines an alarming and disturbing light into the world of drug rehab and psychiatric care. She handles the frightening subject matter head on, providing the reader with a vivid picture. She has an unique writing style that is definitely worth checking out. A five star book, to be sure!
The Tree Outside the Window (Book) - 2/26/2019 7:33:37 PM
A very well-written story about a very harrowing subject. 'The Tree Outside the Window' is a vivid account of the "dark side" of the world of psychiatry and drug rehab. It is a "touchy" subject to broach and many authors shy away from it, but this book does an excellent job combating it head-on.
The story line evolves around Jill and her family, beginning at the age of seven, when she is taken to see a psychiatrist. Her clinical problems start there and follows her into adulthood with each doctor and hospital stay being worse than the last.
Jill becomes very well versed in the name and conditions treated of a variety of psychiatric medicines having been diagnosed as schizophrenic. As she enters her teen years, Jill begins mixing alcohol and illegal drugs with her other pills and tranquilizers, meant to keep her stable.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel however as Jill manages to pull herself together to some degree, finishing school, somewhat repairing her broken relationship with her mother and eventually falls in love and gets married.
R. Burrow has written a great book on a very heartbreaking subject. She has found away to shine a light on a "taboo" topic, exposing and explaining the life behind the psychiatric abuses and drugs in this country.
I recommend you check this book out! A definite thumbs-up!
The Tree Outside the Window (Book) - 1/7/2019 10:51:33 AM
This publication was an in depth look at the mental health issues as told by the patient herself. The incidents that happened to her were sad, sickening, and disturbing on so many levels.
The author's use of writing this publication in the first person was brilliant and gives the reader a first-eye view of what is happening in the psyche of a mentally-ill person.
This publication should be read by all parents and/or individuals who have chosen healthcare as their occupation and soon-to-be parents alerting them to the real consequences of the healthcare system, some of the pitfalls that may go unchecked along the way of bringing up their children, and what a person in crisis is feeling.
Kudos to the author for this extensive and well-documented publication.
The Tree Outside the Window (Book) - 11/9/2018 10:05:52 AM
I was given a chance to read this book for an exchange of an honest review . Let me start off by saying that this book was simply amazing. I read it in about 3 days which is very good for me...I thought that this book was very thought provoking and had well developed characters. I was hooked after the first couple of chapters. Initially I thought that it was gonna be kinda slow because of how it started and boy was I wrong. The book flowed and didn’t miss a beat . It was. Very informative letting us into the life of a person with mental health illness. I think that everyone should read this book especially if they have a love one or even a friend that deals with mental health. I hope that this Author continues to flow in what I deem as excellent writing skills and I definitely look forward to future work from them. You will definitely want to pick up a copy of this boom and it’s guaranteed to not disappoint.
The Sears Boy (Short Story) - 4/5/2024 12:41:15 PM
I've often said that reality makes better stories. If this is truly a memoir, it speaks of authenticity. However, names bother me. So your use of Jill may just be a memoir of your primary character that is probably modeled after yourself. As Forrest Gump would say, "When you're in a bar looking for a ride home, you never know what you're lying to get."
If I ran into one of those Sears modelsIn panties that I admired as a teenager while in the outhouse and those pages were not used for wiping butts, I would indeed be happily surprised. If in a bar, I might ask her to model for me.
Ron
The Sucker (Short Story) - 11/6/2023 11:34:43 AM
A word with two meanings. Maybe three. The way it is written, you, the actor in the story were suckered by candy. That's how Fisher got away with it.
Short but interesting.
Ron
Memoir of a wildcat (Short Story) - 10/5/2021 10:59:36 AM
As far as I read, it's perfectly written without any errors or omissions. And quite an interesting story because of your relationship with Al, the cat that bit you without malice. Are you continuing the story?
My younger brother had an infection in his toe that arrived that his heart and destroyed a valve. He has had a pig valve for many years. I wonder if that makes him affectionate towards pigs? ;-)
Ron
My Escape from the Psychiatric Unit (Short Story) - 8/31/2021 8:35:54 AM
What an adventure! Sounds like a scene from a movie. Really well written and, though it is about a sad time in your life, it's very funny the way you wrote it.
Sy (Short Story) - 7/30/2021 8:42:24 AM
Thank you for this wonderful story. It is very sad, but all too common. I have had my round in the mental health system and, like yourself, I was very determined to not make it a habit! Very sad, but also with your own life successes shared, tells a story of hope as well. I appreciate that you've had the courage and the trust to share this with others. It is a story that needs telling. Corrine
When Marty Died (Short Story) - 7/12/2021 7:24:18 PM
Your story reminds me of someone I loved dearly who would not take care of themselves until it was too late. It is frustrating to love someone who is very ill and who is not the healthiest person, psychologically, to have a relationship with. I wanted to let them go, but my love won out and I grieve to this day. You've written a tragic story. I don't see the silver lining, except in your love. It is never wrong to love.
Sy (Short Story) - 6/25/2021 7:33:45 AM
Thanks, Ron. It doesn't sound as though your exposure to mental illness has been all that meager. I have only one thought, and that is: why would people who are "behaving abnormally" be insulted when treated as "normal?" Respect, to the mentally ill, I have seen, is like a rare jewel, so hard to find, and one of the qualities most needed and lacking.
There are the severe, or major mental illnesses (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder) and illnesses like the neuroses (obsessive compulsive, hysteria) from what I understand, and the differences are only a matter of degree.
Sy (Short Story) - 6/18/2021 9:42:29 AM
You are showing your sensitive soul. Particularly towards those who have mental illness.
My exposure to mental illness has been meager. Throughout my life I have sought to treat people as normal, even if they experienced abnormal behavior. I gave them that, but some treated me as though it were an insult by my being simply straight with them.
When I was in the state University Hospital at 21, supposedly rehabilitating for five weeks from spinal cord injury and surgery, I was put in a welfare ward and given the task of overseeing two younger ward inmates, like many were. The 16-year-old was an alcoholic who started drinking at Oktoberfest and never stopped. The 15-year-old was growing breasts and was there to have them removed. Unfortunately, I didn't help them. We just ran the hospital looking for cute nurses and other girls. We found one to talk to, a 14-year-old girl who seemed to have some real "daddy" issues. She may have been sexually abused.
My ex-wife's medical doctor father was in a Veteran's home/hospital when I saw him once in 1981. A World War I veteran and wealthy doctor for major companies in Dayton Ohio Like National Cash Register and Kettering, he had a breakdown and became incompetent in 1955, taking his wife and two girls to live with his mother in my hometown. Eventually, he was in a nursing home until his status as a veteran allowed him to be in the VA hospital for free.
When I saw the man, in his 80s, he seemed to be very sane and even competent. But I didn't see him very long. My wife told me that he didn't like any of the other veterans… They were beneath him. He lived there until he died around 96 years old. I don't know if his mind got worse or not.
Aside from some of the women I dated, I encountered few with mental problems until my last working days when I was given a young man who seemed selfish and would not straightforwardly follow my need for getting work done, but catered to almost everyone who would give him an assignment that he liked. Robert and I were fired at the same time. But I had retired before my firing. Robert, a student at the University who became a worker from being a student worker, was nowhere near retirement age. But his behavior and his work record made it difficult for him to move on. Within a year after he left work he sent me an email stating that his name was now Rachyl. After asking me for money that I did not give him/her, I lost track of her. Later, I learned of his early tragic life that may have contributed problems. But he never told me anything about himself so that I could have helped like I may have helped others when I was their professor.
Ron
Sy (Short Story) - 6/18/2021 3:33:27 AM
There's a lot to be said for a rebellious nature which serves us well. I'm sorry that Sy deteriorated to the point where he ceased to exist.
Eddie, Elinor and Jill (Short Story) - 6/15/2021 9:49:24 AM
You had listed this as a memoir, so I was trying to connect you to the story but couldn't. Also wondering why you left Jill out of the title since she had a major role in the narrative.
A more dysfunctional bunch of characters I have never met. Totally abusive with no merits at all except perhaps, codependence, that strange kind of love. The third of the way through I wanted to quit reading but continued just to see if it got any better and it didn't. The writing is fine but the whole thrust of the story is misery.
Sitcoms would suggest that there are families like this, and my ex-wife talked about her ex-mother-in-law in a way that reminded me of Eilnor. The child molestation seemed like an afterthought, but then it may reside in your psyche.
Ron
Response Machines (Short Story) - 6/9/2021 9:47:48 AM
In the first chapter, you wrote that you decided "to do nothing to throw off the game" and then proceeded "to study the list." Which one did you do?
I'm sure people with psychological problems go into psychology deep enough to become professors. There is a classic case where a professor at Stanford had students play roles of guards and inmates. The role-playing students as guards became quite physically abusive of the student inmates. When I was at the University of Wisconsin, there was a professor there who had one of the building's large attic filled with cats. Where he observed their very strong sexuality. Continuing from Freud in backward evolution?
The one time I was in my boss's home, two years before he hired me when we were both professors and he had not yet been made a quite paranoid, vice president, I noticed Psychology Today there as his reading while dumping. I never stayed on a toilet long enough to read.
He had the knack of hiring people like me with a verbal salary over the phone that he cut upon hiring. And, giving two employees the same difficult task where we were bumping heads over getting the same information. One day when one of the guys that he pitted against me and I confronted him about it, he just blew it off, saying that he would take the best from both of us. And he always took credit for what we did, generally not giving much credit or advancement for our hard work. Psychology was his game. He was fired for taking money from events and padding his salary with it, when all of that student money was supposed to go back to students in student services.
Getting ahead in organizations is largely Political Science, using the worst that Psychology comes up with to control unsuspecting underlings with the carrot and the stick. Unfortunately, that usually makes the individual paranoid from all the lying and cheating to get ahead.
Ron
THE JERK (Short Story) - 6/6/2021 10:44:22 AM
You wrote a great story...I sympathize with you about your dad....He sounds like a walking, talking clod who doesn't ever seem to get it....Especially when one like yourself is constantly reminding him of something that he should have already known....I would take my dad anyday....Even if he had any bad habits.
The Urinating Rabbit (Short Story) - 5/15/2021 8:50:10 AM
What a great story! I'm sorry, but I laughed about the part where the rabbit's pee burned through the carpeting! I recall one of my son's friends who neglected to feed his hamster and it died. He left it in the cage until the grain in its stomach sprouted! Thank you for a great animal story. I always cry when I lose a pet, too. Corrine Ardoin
The Methadone Clinic (Short Story) - 4/6/2021 6:55:26 PM
Thanks for reviewing, Ron. Yes, Methadone is a step up from heroin. Both are terribly addictive. But Methadone lasts for 24 hours, unlike heroin, which can wear off in 2-3 hours, then the addict needs her fix again. Going to the clinic is preferable to the often "full-time job" of obtaining the drugs, the financial costs, sickness, the possibility of arrests, prison time, death. Methadone allows a person to work and attend to other life matters. The Methadone is regulated by the personnel at the clinic, and it's much safer than street drugs.
The Methadone Clinic (Short Story) - 4/1/2021 1:21:44 PM
A rather stark, yet detailed description of what government treatment of a problem boils down to. I have read that methadone is also addictive, so I'm not sure if substituting methadone for heroin is really a step up.
When I learned that Ray Charles, in spite of his blindness, managed to be highly productive and lead a fairly good, long life while being addicted to heroin, it gave me a whole new perspective of what drug addiction is like.
Personally I've seen several lives completely destroyed by drugs. And some of these were very bright, beautiful and productive people, destroyed by their addictions. What is it that gets people into such a state? Why can't we be smart enough not to.
Ron
The Birth of Baby James (Short Story) - 3/21/2021 11:37:28 AM
I didn't know that childbirth requires so much detail and anticipation of bad things happening. But this particular birth, if a true one, was surrounded by certain suspicions raised by those doing the birthing process. Unfortunately.
Ron
Robin the Molester (Short Story) - 6/29/2020 2:35:09 PM
Hi Ron. Thanks again for the review. The experience I had with "Robin" was not a cause of my psychiatric problems. I already know the main causes of my schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The primary reason, I'd say, was genetic. My father and his mother also had psychiatric illnesses. These issues almost always have a genetic component. The brain chemistry is different. Next, a highly dysfunctional family. And also, but perhaps not least, drug use. I've learned that 90% of schizophrenics engage in drug use because it helps them feel better. Anyway, I hope this solves the problem of your wondering, Ron. It's really nice that you're interested, I appreciate that.
Robin the Molester (Short Story) - 6/28/2020 8:12:15 AM
You have me wondering whether this experience you had as a 14-year-old, not really a child anymore, has led to your psychological problems. When I was 14, I was very self-aware and could easily have dealt with the situation you describe. I'm quite surprised that your mother didn't seem concerned with Robin. Anyway, I'm glad you were able to write about it here.
Made me recall the time that our graduate school executive secretary sent her daughter to me to tutor in statistics. She was no child, a 20 or so-year-old beauty, studying for an MBA. I had to practice great restraint during that single encounter when we worked so together on my dining room table late into the night. That young woman, after her MBA, went on to work for People magazine, Money magazine and eventually, opened a McDonald's in Harlem and then, in Washington DC. I'm not sure if she ever married, but I remained close friends with her mother long after leaving Atlanta.
Ron
Playing Chicken with the Bus (Short Story) - 6/15/2020 9:34:41 AM
That was a scary interlude. I've had them. Once, on a two-lane road, I attempted to pass two slow 18 wheelers when it was a four-lane that turned into a two lane and I had to brake very fast and tuck behind the last truck. My passenger threatened to get out of the car a thousand miles from home. I persuaded him not to be such an asshole and allow me to drive.
One time when our car broke down in Thailand, my friend's girlfriend, afraid of being out after curfew at 10 PM, took me to her home in Bangkok by four different means of transportation. The second one was a bus driver with a flair for racing (other buses?) We jumped over the bridges over canals that were slightly arched, literally flying through the air and landing hard like a Hollywood movie. As we got close to the central city, he slowed down drastically. Perhaps the police were on his tail, or it had become 10 PM and curfew time. Anyway, it was a wild ride that I had to hang on desperately to my seat as he stopped in his young assistant grabbed old ladies and threw them on the bus or grabbed old ladies and threw them off the bus. All the while collecting fares running up and down the aisle and laughing every time the driver shifted and she nearly lost her feet.
Ron
Never Confined by Clothing (Short Story) - 1/28/2020 11:42:48 AM
Some interesting anecdotes from when you were close to mentally ill people. While clothing certainly helps one shelter from the elements, there are probably times when it is saner to go nude then to cover-up for ulterior religious motives.
Ron
The Night John Lennon Died (Short Story) - 1/23/2020 12:01:23 PM
Hi Ron. Yes, I agree that Lennon was a beautiful person. I'm just going to lay down a different story other than the religious one. First, I did not know that Mark David Chapman was from Hawaii. I do know that he was obsessed with the book, "The Catcher in The Rye." There are theories relating to that. And he was a religious man, at least in prison. I know a forensic psychiatrist that was deeply involved with Chapman, on a therapeutic level, at Attica where she worked and he resided. I asked her numerous times about the situation with Chapman, but she didn't answer me. I think this may have been due to a confidentiality thing. Anyway, after he shot and killed Lennon, he sat, waited, and read Catcher in the Rye until the police came. I think the entire incident is kind of foggy in the public eye. There are many different theories, but I don't bother with them much. It would be great if my friend told me more than she has. R.
More About Cats (Short Story) - 12/30/2019 10:10:09 AM
I can't understand why victims of scams often do not want to report what happened to the proper authorities (embarrassment?). In this case, the SPCA. I can't imagine paying $200 for a kitten, even one with verified papers as a pedigreed one. The overpopulation of pets results in many shelters overflowing with kittens that need a good home. That's the best place to find a pet. Let's put the pet sellers out of business for their nefarious ways.
By bringing this to readers' attention, hopefully you have staved off others from being scammed.
Ron
The Night John Lennon Died (Short Story) - 11/25/2019 10:02:12 AM
You certainly were living dangerously. About a month before, I recall reading an interview with John Lennon in Playboy. It was clear that John was an atheist can be explained why wrote Imagine. His killer was a Jesus freak living in Hawaii. I believe that he read the article or you heard about the article through his zealous religious friends and decided something no handedly about John Lennon's straying from the gospel of Christianity. In other words, he felt empowered to carry out God's will.
There is a lesson in this for every zealous Christian. And I'm glad you wrote this story about your night out to remind me of it. All men may be pigs, but I find them mostly in cheap bars looking for cheap women. John Lennon may have been ugly, but he was a beautiful person. And would lay a hand on anyone who he felt was traveling the wrong route.
Ron
Why Be A Writer? (Article) - 3/15/2019 8:25:28 AM
It is like the relief of "getting it off our chest." But I find most the satisfaction I get from finding others enjoying the story, learning from what I wrote, and finding something worthwhile in my writing it. Thankfully I don't have to live from this personal, and often fictional, writing. The writing I did during my long career has paid those dues.
Ron
Why Be A Writer? (Article) - 3/14/2019 4:41:58 AM
I've no delusions of getting rich. It's the satisfaction of having strung along sentences to tell a cohesive story. Hopefully it will catch on with readers.
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2 old Poems (Poetry) - 3/20/2023 2:11:48 PM
These are good and I enjoyed them. Oldies but goodies.
2 old Poems (Poetry) - 2/4/2023 12:09:24 PM
The first poem is very dramatic. It could be anything. I remember distinctly watching the Miss America's Dairyland pageant with the girls coming down the street in a convertible. They were followed by a white wall that overcame them and us as we jumped in our car to avoid being pelted by hail that gathered to about 3 inches at our feet. Everyone certainly stampeded for cover. Don't know what happened to those girls.
The second poem is pure youthful genius. Kudos!
Ron
the goddess in the landfill (Poetry) - 7/29/2021 10:55:58 PM
One of my favorite poems by Ms Burrows. I don't know what it means but it speaks very powerfully to me and I would like to hear more about the goddess in the landfill and what going on. Please write more on this type of situation Ms. Burrows !!
Love you. (Poetry) - 5/25/2021 5:01:47 AM
Poignant but significant words and theme...
Diana...
Love you. (Poetry) - 5/23/2021 8:35:27 AM
About as unrequited as a love can get. But to act on the emotion would probably cause far too much hurt for it to be worth it. Sad.
Ron
The Homeless (Poetry) - 5/8/2021 2:55:52 PM
We are truly human. Many of us can succumb to addictions.
It is so easy when we live in a world that has so much drugs
readily available. Many people are brilliant souls that just have
had many bad breaks in life. Thank you for sharing this real
and deep poem that shows the reality of life. Prayers and hugs. Vie
The Homeless (Poetry) - 4/28/2021 2:25:30 PM
It is very difficult for me to pass by a homeless person without
giving them something, Been there. I no the pain. Thanks for your beautiful rendering.
The Homeless (Poetry) - 4/28/2021 8:38:25 AM
Your poem makes me sad. We are so easily addicted. And when it happens, we become prisoners to one track lives that are usually shortened considerably, depending upon the addiction. It takes willpower to leave addiction behind and to make choices in our lives that do not get us addicted.
I admired my dad when he, after 20 years of smoking, with half a carton consumed and still driving truck on long boring trips, stopped cold turkey. It lengthened his life and he was healthier. But I never started smoking after seeing what it really was. And all of the "highs" that are available to young people these days, are simply traps for addiction that they do not know from an experience.
Ron
The Pacific Ocean (Poetry) - 8/27/2018 7:34:16 PM
After living in and around the Atlantic Ocean for most of my life, I have found that I am interested in seeing the Pacific, even though I know it cannot be any different than my personal mother ocean...just another bucket list thing to do before I die, no lie...-e-
The Pacific Ocean (Poetry) - 8/19/2018 12:17:23 PM
Thanks for the reviews. Once, as a child, I was at the Atlantic Ocean, playing in the shallow water. The waves began to grow larger and larger quickly. The adults yelled at me to come to shore. I didn't listen. The waves then became so huge and powerful, and rolled over my head so fast, I had to run my hardest or I know I would've been swept away.
The Pacific Ocean (Poetry) - 8/19/2018 9:08:19 AM
An interesting revelation in the last three lines. Quite wishful thinking.
Once I experienced waves that crossed the great Pacific and landed on the beach in Santa Cruz. While I tried all day to body surf a frigid wave, all I got was swamped in wave after wave of water that tasted like it came from a sewer. So much for romanticism.
Ron
The Pacific Ocean (Poetry) - 8/18/2018 6:48:36 AM
Wonders and mysteries abound in this "deep and current" write.
Grapevines (Haiku) (Poetry) - 12/24/2013 11:18:29 AM
they are wonderfully visual and tasteful in many ways to many differently
budd
Selena the cat (Poetry) - 11/30/2013 10:26:58 AM
They're just like people sometimes, they get moody but you forgive them for their actions. :-) Nice poem.
Selena the cat (Poetry) - 11/26/2013 10:00:42 PM
Well versed cat poem. My cat bites me every now and then. I call them love bites. Amen!
Selena the cat (Poetry) - 11/26/2013 10:29:43 AM
If I was the cat, I would say, "You rubbed me the wrong way."
Ron
Selena the cat (Poetry) - 11/26/2013 7:22:17 AM
you have to love them as they are, i agree
budd
An Instant of Rain (Poetry) - 10/28/2013 5:15:43 AM
sad memories revealed very well here
budd
An Instant of Rain (Poetry) - 10/27/2013 10:36:54 AM
Some gripping words. The one titled 'Mom' really bothers me.
Ron
Like the devil, My Darling (Poetry) - 10/26/2013 8:19:38 AM
I sincerely believe that we each have a guardian angel who walks with us and talks with us. We are not abandoned.
When I'm very old........ (Poetry) - 10/26/2013 8:15:19 AM
You seem to be at peace with yourself and your circumstances now. A nursing home might well be your best option. As for me, no way. I will simply ride off into the sunset and continue to follow whatever remains of my dreams. There are no perfect answers to such imperfect questions. Do your best with what you have is all any of us can do.
When I'm very old........ (Poetry) - 7/7/2013 7:37:23 AM
Interesting questions raised. I would say to do everything you can to keep your mind sharp and to know when your own death is imminent enough to tell others, “goodbye.”
Nursing homes are passé. My mother, still sharp for her age, with no funds of her own, is getting all the help she needs at home. The next step would be assisted living where she would have independence. The final step would be hospice with caring people all around.
For the past twenty years, I've had three helpers in my home that get me out of bed, and then take care of all my basic needs, allowing me to be free to write, and pretty much, do what I want. Sure, it costs money, but I saved for thirty years because I knew it was coming and I didn't want to burden my family or go into a nursing home. When that time comes, I will probably be here in my home saying goodbye to my employees and partner.
Ron
When I'm very old........ (Poetry) - 7/7/2013 4:51:50 AM
R. Burrow,
John and George are right. Some fortunate people do and can live at home. I used to be a CNA. I worked for my landlord taking care of his parents. A nursing home was not an option for them. My landlord wanted them at HOME. I took care of them until their death. They both passed away peacefully at home.
Many blessings,
+Linda
When I'm very old........ (Poetry) - 7/6/2013 4:37:10 PM
Don't you believe it. My next door neighbor is 94 and lived at home all of his life. I have interviewed many people in their 80's and 90's and most don't want to go to a nursing home. They exercise and eat right so they don't go there! So don't believe it and don't believe everyone who is old has to live in pain. The food we eat do make a huge difference. Amen!
Peace, love and blessings be with you,
JMD
When I'm very old........ (Poetry) - 7/6/2013 4:33:40 PM
Too much can happen between then and now to bring it all to a happy ending.
Like the devil, My Darling (Poetry) - 2/27/2013 5:59:56 AM
Is this really you, or just the dark poem?
Ron
Like the devil, My Darling (Poetry) - 2/26/2013 3:35:19 PM
Not a pleasant thought or wish to have but makes for good poetry.
George
Addicted to (Poetry) - 1/4/2013 8:37:40 AM
Unpardon me but I relent it boldly;
For it is far ahead, if I can be sure of it,
And far it is, that my hallucination be valid,
And hallucination it is, as it should be,
And however, unlike itself, mysterious, unknown, and untested,
So it be foreseen in my tireless search.
To Cipher (Poetry) - 1/20/2012 12:40:09 PM
Dark and gloomy, but a refuge for your mind.
Ron
the goddess in the landfill (Poetry) - 7/18/2011 8:20:04 PM
pensive, plosive, poignancy rivets this prose poem together with a rare and raw emotion that is equally trenchant and robust...
nicely done.
Roger
No More Sorry Cats (Poetry) - 6/20/2011 7:34:33 PM
Very sweet and touching piece..
Be always safe,
Karen
Addicted to (Poetry) - 6/12/2011 7:16:25 PM
Actually the addiction is to the nanny state. If we didn't have the government safety net to rescue us from our abuses, we might take a little more responsibility in protecting our bodies from self-harm.
Still a great poem.
~ Sara
IRIS: drug abuse program (Poetry) - 8/28/2008 7:15:50 PM
Your powerful words ring true to me, drug abuse and desperately trying to become clean is a dangerous battle for many. People are people regardless of the circumstances they find themselves in.
Thank you for highlighting the plight of many, with your sincere and caring write.
