“For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.” IfsYearsWellsFeelingsRememberMorningWeekExerciseSevenDinnerHolidayAfternoonNew YearPullingRopeNew Years EveWorkaholicSeven Days Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.” IfsFeelingsParentRoomsGriefCryTearsHugeRiversMy FamilyAngryScaryDinnerCriedMississippiMississippi River Author:Anne Lamott