#family

It's one of those days where you just want to complain about everything. Every article you read is garbage, every thread and comment section is loaded with idiot bombs and moron missiles. War,poverty,inequality,racism,shootings,bombings,mass violence, dumbed down nations, apathetic leaders, greed...

Things are finally back to normal again after 3 weeks of my husband's grandma living with us. Yesterday we brought her to the assisted living home and it was really nice and a little weird. Today is kind of weird too but starting to feel more normal again, I have a million and one things to…

I return to work in 22 minutes but I'd like to share a vignette from an hour ago. I drove to my parents house to eat and do laundry, like any college kid does. I walked up to the door, laundry in hand, and paused at the door momentarily to listen to my mother play…

Wow, Open Diary. Hello old friend. It's been 8 years ... 8 years. It's a lifetime in terms of changes to my world. 8 years ago, I was 28 with no kids. Today, I'm 36 with 4 children. My wife and I are in our 12th year of marriage. Oh, the things I didn't know…

February 4th 2018, 1:30Pm Home, Bradford Delightful! My diary is reclaimed and I just posted my first entry. Time to make another one to add to the backlog. After not receiving a reply to my initial request to reclaim my diary, I sent another email and received a response about an hour later sayi...

Hello OD community! OD is back and it brings me a sense of home, of warmth that I haven't felt anywhere else. I was an avid OD user 16 years ago. I began writtig back when I was in college, away from home, different country, different friends and I was lonely, very lonely and depressed.…

January 27th 2018, 10:07Pm Home, Bradford. Wonderful to see OpenDiary is back online. I am only hopeful that my request to access my old diary goes well so that this entry, along with my previous two, may see the light of day. I sent off my request last night and have not heard back yet,…

If you're still here, I appreciate it, truly. 😍 If you're new here, hey there. 🤓 I was terrified of making people mad until about 4 months ago...stick with me...or don't, it's your life 💁 "And should she choose to be a Mother one day, be my eyes, Lord, that I may see her, lying on a blanket…

"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern." --Anais Nin I was terrified of making people mad until about 4 months ago...stick with me...or don't, it's your life 💁 As a child I was meek but social. My dad left us when I was 4 and my…