Slashing became a part of my life at 21. Shocking behavior, some might think, but not so to me. I'd been two decades in a severely-dysfunctional family and I could only guess at what healthy was. Cu

I am reprinting several articles I wrote in the late 80s and early 90s. All of these are true stories. In fact, the things that happened to me, chose my life's mission--to fight against all kinds of v

I don't understand this, lots more I don't understand but...   It was just a few slaps. That’s OK then?   Heard today, the actor who admitted to slapping his ex-wife. "I couldn't handle the fact she w

  I am a feminist, to me,woman = feminist. Feminism means different things to people. For me,it just means respecting women as much as men and thus giving women the same rights and opportunities as m

The last three and a half years I have spent working in a call center for the local utility company. It has been three and a half years of emotional, verbal, and mental abuse, to put it mildly. No o

I'm so eager to work on freeing myself from within that it has been hard to focus on much else.  That is what my life is about this year and I plan to make good on it.  As it goes with such things, th

  I have been thinking about what to say about healing between the genders.  Once again, these words do not come easily but that is okay by me. Life would be so boring without a good struggle with whi

  I stood at the doorway of my oldest child's bedroom on his first birthday and grinned. You could not tell from his bedroom what gender he was. The colors were neutral, bright and bold and chosen f

    Imagine a world with no gender wars, a world where everyone treats others with respect... A place where gender doesn't matter, where you're allowed to be yourself, where you do not have to conform

I'm probably not in the best place to be writing about healing between the genders. That was my first thought when I started out to ponder this month's Women on the Verge theme. I'm just about six mon