she and her husband live in rural wisconsin.
they were away for their anniversary when their home burned down, killing their three cats.
they lost everything.
She and her husband live in rural Wisconsin. They were away for their anniversary when their home burned down, killing their three cats. They lost everything. I'm trying to get details, haven't been able to find any news online. The info came from my youngest daughter. (I'm completely shunned since fading long ago.) I will help out where I can. I can't imagine what it must be like to lose everything.
It's mind boggling that she wouldn't contact me, her sister, because I'm out of the org.
Emma
with the holidays amongsts us how did you feel the first time you celebrated the holidays?
the first time i felt like i was in north korea trying to slip pass the secret police.
how weird a wonderful family holiday and i was acting like i just stole the mona lisa..
One of my first traditions was to buy each of my children an ornament as a Christmas present. My daughter will have her first Christmas with her new husband and I'll give her the ornaments that have been collected for her over the years for their tree.
Our first tree was decorated with those inexpensive, colored glass balls and I still have a few left, along with felt ornaments the kids made for that first tree. We didn't have a tree-topper so my daughter used a cookie cutter to trace a star out of yellow felt and I've been using it ever since. I would not replace it for any fancy tree topper!
with the holidays amongsts us how did you feel the first time you celebrated the holidays?
the first time i felt like i was in north korea trying to slip pass the secret police.
how weird a wonderful family holiday and i was acting like i just stole the mona lisa..
I really loved them both! We were shunned when first simply missing meetings and becoming inactive. (My family are uber-righteous). Since we were already completely shunned, we weren't worried about being found out. The kids loved it; me too.
This is where shunning backfires for the borg. If my mom would have been in contact with us, it would have been harder to leave.
campaigners make call for changes in the laws.
thursday, 27 september 2012. .
special report: child abuse and the churches.
Thanks for posting, Blondie. Good to see the issue still in the public eye.
hi awhile back i posted about my asian roommate that is from thailand, i made a decision to move out of the house and now am in my own apartment:) i feel that i will be able to much more better control the situation if jw's come to the door, that one time seeing the watchtower and awakes laying out on the coffee table was enough to cause me too much anxiety and now am happy to be on my own and since then the anxiety has gone down and am more relaxed, also something else i learned having a roommate was not the most biggest cost savings, i might even be able to save more money being on my own, it got frustrating at times when i go and buy food and half the food i buy was eaten now i don't have to worry about anyone in the frig in my food:) and another plus am closer to work, work is only 1.5 miles away:).
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Living on your own can be a really good thing!
just curious.
would anyone like to share, if they feel like it, their memory of the last door they ever knocked on?
i was with about 3 or 4 other people, all sisters.
I don't remember my last door but remember the last two times "out in service" and thinking I couldn't keep going. I'd talked to several really nice people who weren't interested at all but were kind, didn't want to be mean. I realized I just couldn't accept that they'd be destroyed just because they didn't want to listen. There were other things going on in my brain, but this was one of the last nails, so to speak.
So glad I'm out as are all my kids!
i work at a major airline in the in-flight training department.
i was sitting at the desk on the computer, i kid you not... writing the security (hijacking) curriculum for 2002, when someone came in and told me a plane flew into the wtc.
we all thought it was one of our planes.
I was in the middle of a staff meeting at the study-abroad office at the University of Michigan. Our assistant director got a phone call from his wife saying she'd heard the first tower was hit. Most didn't believe it. After the meeting, I went to the ground floor of the student union where big TVs were showing everything live. Surreal. We dealt with panicked parents and offered to bring home their kids from programs if they wanted. Only one had their student come back.
My ex husbands wife calle me wanting to know what to do for him. Though we'd been out of the borg for several years, he thought the big A had begun and was not able to function. He shook for weeks (literally trembled) before he got over it.
My daughter and spouse were visiting from Europe and wondered when they'd get back home. We watched TV together.
let me know how you get your fiber?.
It is easy to get too many refined carbs on a wheat-free, gluten-free diet. I make a good oatmeal muffin with oats and sorghum flour. While I do use 1/4 cup of sugar, it could be replaced with agave or stevia.
let me know how you get your fiber?.
Bulgur and spelt are both wheat.
I'm off wheat because I have Celiac Disese. In baking I use lots of sorghum flour and quinoa flour, both high in fiber and protien.
Eat lots of fruit and veggies!
...and they're clearly in the mood for pushing it on youtube.. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lerx3gkthxk.
what is it with all these random youtube channels, each showing polished and highly-produced videos.
Which version, public or secret?
