Author: sharmaine

Click to enlarge. I was looking back through some of my drafts, and I started this one almost two years ago, on October 24, 2008, hoping to start a discussion, and get some other perspectives. This place is now closed. It was located in downtown Atlanta, near Phillips Arena, and I loved it! But my Read more

Today is the last time I will turn twenty-anything! Wow. On my way to work this morning (before my parents called, almost at the same time), “Strawberry Wine” by Deana Carter was playing, ironically (my iPhone usually stays in “shuffle” mode). She begins verse two by saying, “I still remember when 30 was old…” Me Read more

Just go to Google Images and enter “9/11”, and you’ll find countless images I could have used for this post. This is the one I chose, not because I’m tired and lazy from the nasty sinus infection that has had me at home for the last 4 days, and this was the first image that Read more

To look at this snapshot of last week from my Entourage calendar, it looks like a fairly average week. Actually, it’s quite below average for me, in terms of scheduled appointments. But like my best friend said on Friday, “This week has lasted about a month for me.” I couldn’t have said it better myself. Read more

Mine broke this week. My emotional dam. On Monday. It could have been my disturbing dream on Sunday night, which has been the cause of my reliance on sleeping pills ever since. Nevertheless, it was inevitable. Emotions can only be suppressed for so long, and that  dam of suppression can be an absolute BEAST when  Read more

This week has been an absolute blur. I have been seriously procrastinating when it comes to writing about an issue I have been struggling with for the past few months, for fear of the emotions I know will arise once I put pen to paper (or fingers to laptop keyboard). So the procrastination continues… But Read more

On my built-in vacation day from my well-paid, dependable, salary-based job that includes benefits and perks, I watched last Sunday’s Dateline episode (7/25/10), and I hung my head in shame. Some 40 million Americans – including one in five children – are now living in poverty. For a family of three, that means living on Read more

(Click button on far right to view full screen.) A few months ago, on April 19, I couldn’t sleep. I was extremely worried. My mind was all over the place. So I grabbed my handy dandy BlackBerry (which as most people know, is rarely more than a foot away from me) and I wrote down Read more

“It has nothing to do with me.” During the last (AMAZING) session of my “Total Forgiveness” group, these words were repeated several times as someone shared a story about a professional relationship. They kept echoing in my head, and I while I kept trying to connect it to my own story, another part of me Read more

“I was tired of being so angry.” “I was tired of crying myself to sleep every night.” I heard these words spoken on Tuesday, June 1, toward the end of the 7th session of “Total Forgiveness”. I almost had to check to be sure I didn’t blurt them out myself. They are the very reasons Read more