it's YOUR turn now, guys......everyone needs a discussion with their name on it! c'mon! don't be shy! that's how we can get to know you!!!

Hello terri

Thank You for starting this site.  It is beautiful and so very sacred.  A place to come when I need to be with my authentic self and feel safe about being with her.  You see my Authentic Self had been squashed so many years ago when I was just a young child not feeling safe or protected by those that should have been there for the innocent child that I was.  It has taken me a lot of risk taking and being vulnerable to allow my authentic self to begin to bloom and blossom. 

I too am a wonder and thinker.  I use to think about many things that I wanted to do and need to along my life's journey.  I spent a lot of time pondering how I was gonna be able to manage my life.  Pondering how I was going to be able to allow people into my circle of life.  It has been a hard journey.  I have had to really work at keeping myself safe from harm because that was what I grew up learning. 

So I am here with you and love all the quote and effort hat you have put into this site.  Again I say Thank You for the blessing that it is.   

Be Inspired and Be Encouraged your work is worthy and so so needed.

Barbarie

barbarie! what a cool name. is that kinda nickname for barbara??? i never heard of it and love it.

50 looks beautiful on you...

thanks, fred.......i love your name!!!

not feeling very Fab...
:-((

only ONE didn't work. and it was kinda funny how it showed up!  :) 

and hey! my smileys worked!

Hey terri!  Just introducin myself...hello everyone else, I am Linda Price and have always hated that name because it is so common sounding kids at school would yell, "Price-aroni, the San Francisco Poison!"  They got more imaginativeand after my divorce I kept the colorful last name of Barbarito.  After Price, it was so exotic and a great way to gab to strangers which I love to do because I really am interested!  Everybody had to ask how to spell "Barbarito" so I developed a repertoire saying silly things like, "great Irish name" and they would get sillier saying, "Any relation to Vinnie Barbarino," and ha ha I would laugh and suddenly we were just gabbing and cackling and the ice wasn't only broken it was melted!  No one ever asks to spell Price---the name just sits there exciting as congealed pudding in melamine.

Well, if I had stuck with Barbarito it would be just fine but I had to meet and marry Steve Ness after 13 years of being alone.  I was so in love I tossed Barbarito out the window of a car on its way to a crash, but of course I didn't know it was going to be our crash----but the signs went from "STOP" to "DEAD END" but when you are convinced this is your soul mate and the one who even wanted to adopt my 13 year old daughter Amber, who hadn't evenseen her father until she was nine, well caution flew out with my exotic last name.  Stuck with the monosyllabic name of "Ness" at least I could yammer about Eliot Ness, or my relative "The Loch Ness Monster"until the fateful day I realized just what havoc I had wreaked on my good name.  I was the recipient of an award at an English Honors Ceremony, proud and excited to show  off to my new husband and beginning thespian daughter. Soon, soon they would call my name, a new one befitting the many awards and accolades I planned to soothe my lingering insecurity with as well as make my new family proud.  When they called my name, I froze in shock, my smile more a rictus now.  First there was a titter, then giggles, an outright guffaw or two as my red-faced daughter pushed me out of my seat urging me to just go and get it over with.  Woodenly, I walked  up on stage, unable to ignore the presenter holding his laughter in, just barely.  It was as if time had reversed itself and I was once again a laughingstock, like that horrible dream of giving a speech and realizing you had forgotten your clothes. 
All the way home I stared at my impossible new name, the worst of them all!  Wanting to keep a part of myself independent I had come up with the idea of Keeping the first initial of my maiden name "Price" andfollowing it with "Ness" so mortified I stared at name "Linda P. Ness, which when spoken aloud sounded as if I had the misfortune to be named after the lower region of a man's anatomy. 
Yes, har,har, I was Linda Penis and just try shaking a name like that!
Thus, after adventures of all sorts, I have come full circle.  Linda Price,, pleased to make your acquaintance and excited to join in this forum with terri and the rest of you.
Just wanted you to know if you slip up and call me "Willow of the Wild Woods,"  I wouldn't mind a bit!

linda! what can i even say to that?!!! laughin'.......and welcome, linda price!  :)

OMG - My kinda woman! And she writes humor! Glad to know you, Linda Price.

(((((HUGS)))) :X

Nice to meet you Linda Price...this is too funny, and I'm trying not to laugh and wake my husband and dog up lying next to me....humor is always greatly appreciated and welcome!

hey terri-this is so awesome that you gave ppl with pain 2 speak-i've been deallin with severe denerative disk disease since well when i hurt myself at career job as an x-ray technoligist-i was a single Mom struggling 2 make a better life for my children and self-always worked overtime an my last shift workin ended the start of my better life for all of us-that's when they discovered my degenerative situation-i was devastaed 2 say the least- i had made promises 2 my children 2 myself and for the last 14 years have been through the ringer with docs family-it's miserable 2 fight the pain but with no family support and turning my kids against me just about killed me-but i've picked up the boot straps and am tryin 2 finally go on and not b surrounded with neg. ppl or anything neg. that might come my way-the meds helped but have cause other health issues-tryin 2 keep positive eat healthy and take as little meds as possible-it's an extremely tuff fight but now i'm finally fighting 2 try and enjoy what's left and not y did this happen-still struggling but fightin 4 myself and others and help others as much as i can-my life is a big job now not a career-i can tell anyone with chronic pain 2 try and laugh as much as possible and do the things you enjoy in life even if it isn't as much as you want-love 2 all :))

oh! seegee! i'm so glad you posted! thank you! there's actually another spot i believe people are writing on this topic....i'll go over and look and if i don't see you there, i'll cut and paste this with your name and include it in the list....let me go see what's goin' on....

okay, i just peeked and didn't see you on that thread. so i'm going to cut and paste your comment and leave it there with your name. if you go to the main page here and see the list of discussions, you'll see the topic 'chronic pain'.....and that's where you'll find the ladies discussin' it! just hop on in and join them! thanks so much seegee!  :)

Hi there.  My name is Dan and I found this site from the "Stitched" facebook page.  I have a friend who struggles with cutting and I wanted to know more about it.  I've read "Stitched" and was interested in more conversations about the subject.  Anywho, once I started looking around I got sucked in and decided that I definitely wanted to be part of things here.  So here I am.   :-h

and here i am feeling bad that the title of this thread is my name (sorta)!!! i had thought maybe we could all pop our own one up with our own names.....so now i feel like a name hog. just wanted to say i feel a little funky about that.......not sure if i can change the title of the thread...if i can i will!

You may call me whatever you like.  Dan, Derm, or Dermy are all fine.   :D  I was going to say just don't call me late for dinner but I love free food whether I'm on time or not.

i changed the title all on my own and i was so proud of myself for that!  didn't have to ask the guys!
it's the little things.....

and yeah, i had to take the book really slow.
it's a powerful story.......

=D>

thank you.

thank you.

taking a bow here!
wait...wrong kinda bowing there.......lol!
^:)^

Yeah, it looks like you're giving me the credit.  Aw shucks.   :X

yeah, i noticed that! lol!
i'm just not a good smiley face person..i just tried to post
the little purple demon one and i got this........i give up.........
:-)

Good Morning from the UK!

My name is Stephanie and i found you through a friend sharing your website link on Facebook. So nice to have landed here, what wonderful creations!

I am an artist recently returned from living 5 years on a teeny weeny island in the Southern Gulf of Thailand, at the ripe, young age of 43 i am very much on a journey of self discovery, it's nice to be able to share this with like minded souls and if my experiences and artistic expression resonate and uplift those who come into contact with it then fabulous, i'm a happy bunny.

I look forward to connecting some more with you all over time.

Bliss!
Steph XX

steph! so nice to have you!

:-h