Anything you'd like to know about my 10 years working in a mental hospital?It was a state mental hospital. It had a civil commitment section (homeless people brought in by police, indigent mental patients whose families couldn't care for them) and it had a forensic section (people serving prison terms considered mentally...See More »
Why do you think people enjoy going to horror movies?This question also includes reading scary books. I really enjoy Stephen King.
I Love to WriteA True Story About A Former Friend. Our friendship had been on the rocks after she spent some intimate time with my boyfriend of two years, after she'd sold my furniture out from under me while a guest in my home, after she'd pulled up my bean garden...See More »
I Have a Difficult MotherI posted a story about my mother and my bizarre childhood and life. I posted under: I Wan To Know What Is Behind My Family's Lies and Secrets . My mother was a powerful person in the old Communist Party and I was a red diaper baby who grew up in...See More »
The people who tell you to lose weight are the first to offer you rich foodThe husband who tells his wife she needs to lose a few lbs. will show up with a pizza and a box of her favorite donuts 2 days after she starts the diet. The friend who gives you advice about losing weight is the one who offers you cake "because it's...See More »
Are you afraid of someone you call a friend?Someone you became friends with who, over the years, has changed to the point that you are afraid of him or her. You are scared to be around them but afraid of what they might do to you if you outright ended the relationship....so you stay in touch...See More »
What should I write today?I have agreed to write some stories for a friend based on my 10 years working in a state mental hospital. Here are some story ideas I am considering writing today. Tell me which one I should start with now. 1. How nearly getting fired and being...See More »
I At Least Want To Make One Of My Dreams RealityOne of my long time dreams is finally coming true. I have always wanted to live in a quiet beautiful rural place with weather warm enough to swim year round and a big deep swimming pool to swim in everyday. And a vegetable and flower garden with...See More »
The worst movie ever made?My own nomination: An Unmarried Woman Starred Jill Clayburgh Released back in the 1970s. This film was an extremely unreal film about a middle aged woman whose husband leaves her for another woman. It seems to be saying that being poor with a part...See More »
I Loved Someone That Didn't Love MeNearly 10 years. Sweet words, sweet love, laughs, good times, Valentine's and birthday cards. Then...a pack a day of Marlboro lights caught up with him. Lung cancer. Advanced when diagnosed. Inoperable. He died 11 months from diagnosis. A couple...See More »
I Hate CommunismI grew up as a red diaper baby during the 1950s , the Red Scare era in the U.S. While I sympathized with those who were unfairly oppressed by the hysteria of that era, I did not emerge from it sympathizing with my mother's dedication and belief in...See More »
Is Dilbert even more fun to read when you're retired?Or is is more funny when you are working on a job because reading Dilbert relieves the tension? But then, reading it now as a retired person gives me the thrill of knowing that this stuff is all in my past! I've never worked in a big corporation...See More »
Has anyone here tried Carnivora?As an old chick with a few health problems not addressed by my doctors at Kaiser (when you're old, they just tell you it's a chronic condition and you'll have to live with it). I was wondering if Carnivora is worth a try.
I am a New Member at Similar WorldsI posted for several years on the Experience Project under the name Brainyblond. I deleted my 51 stories about my somewhat bizarre life, including my miserable childhood as a red diaper baby at the height of the Cold War red scare in the US. I feared...See More »