"Nobody likes me. Everybody hates me." That's the kind of thing that I used to say when I was a kid. "Well then, you might as well go eat worms." That's the kind of answer my mom would give me. Eat worms? For crying out loud! No wonder I am the way I am. See, it's my mom's fault that I didn't have

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Marcus Cicero (BC) Interacting amiably with family and friends is a super stress reducer. Instead of our minds working overtime on worrisome problems, it is occupied with thoughts of other

Like far too many people I lived in and was raised by a family who believed the bottle and co-dependency was better then dealing with the "real world", real problems and real children. So, I learned to be: The Chameleon Girl, ready to change to conform to anyone's mood, to leap to conclusions at a

It's that time of year again, time for traveling, decorating, holiday parties, family, friends, relatives and of course. . . . shopping. How many of you simply whip out the credit card and start charging every gift you can find, only to dread the day when your statement arrives in the mail?

Got something you didn't want last Christmas? Or the Christmas before that? Well, you're not the only one. They got stuff they didn't want either. "They" are your gift-recipients, the ones you gave a stale fruitcake or a can-opener or that tacky multi-colored Christmas-themed sweater to. The same fruitcake