Author Archives: Skye

Every kid from grade one through grade twelve knows the very back seats on the school bus are choice. They are the most fun when the driver goes over a big bump and you go flying up in the air. It was always a race to the front of the line so you could getContinue reading “A Day In My Life As A Kid”

I called my parents for the first time in months and the last time was just to talk about paying for counselling and I only spoke to my dad. This time was to give them my new address. My mother answered, as I expected, she was always the one to update things like that. WeContinue reading “So I called Them…”

Since my hard crash into a wall of depression in 2017, the hardest one ever, I’ve been in and out of therapy, and have grown every step of the way. I’ve gone through some one on one; Dialectical Behavioural Therapy; a Day Treatment Program unique to Nova Scotia; and most recently one on one withContinue reading “Adjusting To A Healthier Me”

September 28 was my wedding anniversary. I would have been married twenty years. Thank goodness I’m not. Understand that he was mentally and emotionally abusive. He has stalked me, chased me down the highway and prevented me from leaving a room or the house. By the time I left I was very broken and suicidal.Continue reading “Freedom Day”

Marriage is an outdated patriarchal tradition, in my ever so humble opinion. Up until about four thousand years ago families were small groups of up to thirty people. Most anthropologists believe these groups had several male leaders and multiple women shared among them. Marriage became popular sometime after 2350 BC. The idea that a manContinue reading “Love And Marriage”