Recent content by Swirly

Thinking of you. It sounds miserable for everyone.

That's a long drive for me, about an hour. But I do think I'd be comfortable there, and maybe I should think about that again. Thanks.

Sitting in a Bible study at age 16, I questioned how children in Africa could possibly be condemned to "Hell" for never hearing the word Jesus. I was told this was why we needed to send more missionaries there. A few years later I found the word "Agnostic," knew that was me, and have never...

Just one thing to chime in here with-- I'm sorry about your seemingly impossible situation. I wanted my Mom with me, in her last years, and my older sister would hear nothing of it, and put her in a small residential home (5 patients in regular house - called A Place for Mom back then) . She...

Liberty, I have to tell you that I was taking a moment to look at a few "corners" of homes just now, and came across your fireplace area. There is probably not one thing in that photo that I would've picked out myself, but taken all together, I absolutely love the effect of all you've done in...

That's an interesting facet of this woman, actually-- she has a lot of what I'd call almost uncanny "emotional intelligence." But she reminds me of people on cocaine, or what we used to call "Uppers" in college-- she seems to have almost a pressure to talk.... And I should have said, long ago...

Hearing is not the problem in this case, but certainly a valid question...

I've come up with something I'm going to try. I don't know if links are okay here, but I'm going to find out, I guess-- https://forge.medium.com/how-to-control-a-conversation-without-saying-much-at-all-c46fb2d4823b Interestingly, this technique would use my sister's tactic of asking questions...

I grew up with a monopolizer-- 7 years older than me. I didn't realize it until I was well into adulthood. What she does now, if you try to wrestle the center of attention away from her, is she'll zero in on one person, and ask them a million questions about something. The person being...

How do you delete posts?? They seem to be multiplying!

Yikes!

I was referring to the long silence (lack of comments) after my post #17-- about a day and a half. I was SO excited to get your invite to "just tell us all about it." Then I did, and..... no response. It made me wonder what esoteric internet chat room rule I'd broken.

I was referring to the long silence (lack of comments) after my post #17-- about a day and a half. I was SO excited to get your invite to "just tell us all about it." Then I did, and..... no response. It made me wonder what esoteric internet chat room rule I'd broken.

I wasn't going to tell a million stories, and I understand now that the invitation was to vent going forward, not dredge up the past, but-- the silence here makes me feel weird. I'm going to be brave and ask why?

Oh, I love this. Yes. Thank you! The first time I ever met this woman was in a car pool, at night. I got picked up last, there were 5 or 6 people in the vehicle, she was in the front and I didn't know anything about her. She was "new". But she was talking about a funeral she and her husband had...