For Parents

On April 27, 2003 I wrote about my mother’s letter to Robin. It is at this link: April 27, 2003 I am including it here for Robin’s benefit as she appears to have missed it when she read my blog or possibly she read a post about this that I may have written online on…

Coincidentally I received this joke in an email today: The Bathtub During a visit to a private mental health facility a visitor asked the Director what the criterion was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized. "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a big old fashioned bathtub, then we offer a…

Robin has now cut and pasted and responded on her website to a whole host of points that she disagrees with that I have on Estrangements.com and from posts of mine that she found on an online discussion board. While she said at one point within the last week that she had thrown all emails…

It has been alleged by Robin that I visit her website every day. No. I visit it on occasion. Sometimes months go by without my visiting it. Robin is a Drama Queen. She calls this "stalking". Puhleeze!!! She has suggested that the fact that I talk about murders of families might mean that I would…

I have so much in life to be grateful for. My husband is supportive and has encouraged me to do so many things I was afraid to do or thought I couldn’t do well enough. My gratitude to him is endless. I am grateful for my health and even more so than usual after being…

If you have really looked at Estrangements.com, you would see that I have never presented myself as someone who is a therapist or a counselor. Where i have given advice is through my own experience. I have owned my mistakes. I have shared what I have learned from others estrangements. I do not consider myself…

THE ART OF MISPERCEPTION OR How one person can see purple and the other orange … Well, back to discussing estrangements using myself and my daughter as lab rats to observe, dissect, and draw conclusions. Some will consider this callous and cold. A certain person with the first name of Robin most certainly will. Empathy…

It’s early in the AM and I can’t sleep. This is the fault of having fallen asleep on the couch while watching TV earlier in the evening and then when I go to bed, I can’t sleep. The irony! I couldn’t stay awake on the couch but I can’t sleep in bed! So what better…

I visited my daughter, Robin’s website yesterday, as I do occasionally. It is my way of updating myself on her life if she has updated her website. She has used it as a means of putting news of her life out there, ostensibly for friends? or cousins? Or me? I don’t know why she puts…