Category Archives: Stories from the Mind
Planting Those Kisses…
Don’t know when it started happening, but we’d, started, planting those kisses on one another’s bodies… Planting those kisses, they need to be visible, meaning somewhere that’s, shown, flashed outward, for the world to see! Like on the necks, the … Continue reading →
Posted in A Wrong Kind of Love, Abuser/Enabler Interaction Styles, Between a Man& a Woman, Love Became an Excuse, Properties of Life, Social Awareness, Socialization, Stories from the Mind, the Process of Life, the Vicious Cycle, Things Left Behind, Tips of the Icebergs, Wayward Values
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Tagged Branded, Expressions of "Ownership" Over Someone
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Two Separate Mindsets in Dementia, from the Caretakers’ Journal
The characters of these two elderly women’s personalities were, flipped, upside down by dementia, translated… When my mother-in-law was eighty-three, she was diagnosed as having vascular dementia, and my husband and I took over the caretaking of her, she’d, changed … Continue reading →
Posted in Alternative Perspectives, Beliefs, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Facts, Memories Shared, Mental Health, Philosophies of Life, Real Stories from All Around, Recollections, Socialization, Staying Active During the Elderly Years, Stories from the Mind, the Consequences of Life, the Process of Aging, the Process of Life, Things Left Behind, Values of Life
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Tagged Personality Alters in Demented Elderly
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Go, Miracle Girl!
A mother’s worries, over how her daughter is being discriminated in school, because of her hearing impairments, and there’s, no good way, to cope with this, but to, teach her own young, to NOT care about how others perceived her, … Continue reading →
Posted in Bullying, Child Development, Cost of Living, Experiences of Life, In the Classrooms, Issues of the Day, Lessons of Life, Loss, Mental Health, Methods of Education, Instructional Technologies, Passing of Wisdoms, Properties of Life, Real Stories from All Around, Socialization, Stories from the Mind, the Consequences of Life, the Ins & Outs of the World, the Learning Process, the Process of Life, the Vicious Cycle, Values of Life
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Tagged a Deaf Child in a Hearing World, Accepting Those Who are Different, Being Picked on for Being Different, How Children Can be Cruel to Each Other
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The Air, My Friend
Children then, versus NOW, translated… From Before, I Didn’t Dare Talking Back to My Parents. the artwork of Jimi Liao, from UDN.com And now, because each and every generation of children is smarter than the LAST, we are, a HELL of … Continue reading →
An Alternative Sort of Long-Term Care
Her mother became, the primary “caretaker”, the “go-to woman”, for her paternal grandmother’s caretaking needs, translated… I bear witness to, an alternative kind of long-term care every single day. A phone call, it’d made my mother, drop everything all at … Continue reading →
Posted in Alternative Perspectives, Beliefs, Cost of Living, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Experiences of Life, Facts, Family Dynamics, Family Relations, Gender Roles, Interactions of Parents & Childlren, Issues of the Day, Philosophies of Life, Ranting About Life, Stories from the Mind, the Consequences of Life, the Ins & Outs of the World, the Vicious Cycle, Unspecified, Wayward Values
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Tagged at Her Mother-in-Law's Beck and Call, Taking Care of Her Mother-in-Law Because She's the Only One Available to, the Daughters-in-Law Forced to Undertake the Long-Term Care Needs
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Buried Alive, by These Broken Dreams…
what that pile looked like, now, imagine yourselves, buried in it…photo from online… So many dreams, they’d all been, broken from us, and now, as we became, adults, we are, buried alive, by these broken dreams which were all, once … Continue reading →
The Air, My Friend
The column by Jimi Liao, and apparently, it’d been moved, to Tuesdays here, translated… If You Can’t Even Manage These Smaller Matters What ELSE Can I Expect of You? This, is REALLY bad, and, NO parent should EVER do or … Continue reading →
Posted in Bad Parenting, Child Development, Child Endangerment, Childhood Innocence, Conversations with a Child, Experiences of Life, Interactions of Parents & Childlren, Properties of Life, Ranting About Life, Socialization, Stories from the Mind, the Learning Process, Unsafe in the World, Wayward Values
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Tagged Adult Talking Down to a Child
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Got Away from the Gangs, Started Painting the Masks for Performances, Set His Own Life Straight
The inspirational tale of how this young man who’d, strayed from what was right, got himself, BACK on the right path again, from the Newspapers, translated… The sixteen-year-old, “Yen” was very small in size back in middle school, and was … Continue reading →
Posted in Cost of Living, Experiences of Life, Innocence Lost, Lessons of Life, Losses & Gains, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, Real Stories from All Around, Stories from the Mind, the Consequences of Life, The Lost & Found, The Passages in Life, the Road to Recovery, the Teenage Years, The Trials of Life, Values of Life
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Tagged Back on the Right Path of Life Again, Found Something He's Good at, Turning His Own Life Around
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The Very First Birthday Cake
Memories of earning your very first “paycheck”, so to speak, to buy something special for your mother on her birthday, translated… The very first cake that’s shown up at my house, was for my mom, I’d saved up my year’s … Continue reading →
The Gap Between the Father & Son
The general problems of fathers and sons, stemmed from how men are, socialized, and this father was, willing to change his ways, more or less, translated… For a Father’s Day Special, I had the hard-to-come-by opportunity, to interview pairs of … Continue reading →
Posted in Beliefs, Connections, Conversations with a Child, Cost of Living, Experiences of Life, Family Dynamics, Family Relations, Gender Roles, Lessons of Life, Memories Shared, Philosophies of Life, Properties of Life, Socialization, Stories from the Mind, the Ins & Outs of the World, the Learning Process, The Passages in Life, the Process of Aging, Values of Life
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Tagged Relationships of Fathers & Sons
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Life, the Obstacle Course 