Once Upon A Time

I know exactly what you mean. 🙂 I’m glad I was able to read this before you change your mind.

we are humans with human emotions. one and all. it’s all good.

*hugs* i’m glad you feel somewhat able to share pieces of yourself. I know it’s hard. . . and you have my AIM if you ever need to vent.

I think what you need in LIME GREEN toes yanno like that coke with lime commercial put the lime on your toes you nut. Lime green is a fun color hehehe. I too know what you mean. can’t get too personal people might think I’m not this really profound person that is here. I’ve come to realize I’m just an eclectic nut case hehehehe Lael

i think its all the wonderful and “real” you, just some bits a little more intimate than others … and definitely, some of those things are more difficult to share in this medium. you hit it right on the head when you called it “life skills” i’m not all that funny or clever, but if things get too close for comfort i can well shrug it off with a bit of humor. sleep well 🙂

I’m an eccentric spirit. I use to be an eccentric spirited comical person,somewhere down the line we all lose touch with our inner comic. I hope you find yours again. Be well,Monica

Jesus CHRIST. *You* — are *ME.*

BINGO!!! You’re right, you know, about strength, and about noters missing or sometimes noting off the point of an entry. Your writing is hilarious, but I like it because it’s deeply rooted in truth. Your passion for life, for teaching, and for your students shines through every entry. Your passion for your principal’s ideas, however, is another story entirely!

“I sometimes find that the piece that I thought was clearest and most emphasized….is overlooked entirely for some obscure sentence that I didn’t even remember putting in!” This is why I stopped writing as many really personal entries – people just got the wrong end of the stick and I never really felt like explaining.

I rather suspect the real you and the real me are very much alike. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not, but I think we’d get along just fine, even with the masks all let down. With a big hug…Torin the unsigned

it’s an interesting experence writting here, never know quite what to expect – out of yourself or your readers..we are so complex.. ryn it tastes great – very mild and buttery – the bottle has a due date on it, it’s important to use it when it’s fresh…

Vent away – it’s good for your mental health. I know what you mean. My entrys usually bounce all over the place and the part the matters the most to me is not noticed by anyone else. And I have trouble baring my soul here too although I admire those that can. I hope you slept well and feel better today. hugs…

=) yes, words can be very inadequate sometimes, but they can be pretty expressive at times too. And you use them wonderfully, I completely get it, I plaster this smile on my face and keep it there all the time, but there’s so much that I don’t let on I have, but habits die hard as always.

There are many reasons why I essentially stopped being personal on here. It is difficult to have some of the readers think of you in one way when you know that there is more, and that they probably won’t like it. That was one of the reasons I changed my name and took it back after a year or so. I ended up with a whole different set of readers (except for a few)but they know less about me

You’ll notice I hardly write a whole lot of personal stuff, also. When I do, I make the entries Faves Only, and even then, I stick to surface stuff — tiffs with friends, irritations over family stuff, etc. I don’t write too much about me.

I understand the weariness of being strong…

It’s important to be yourself. Express yourself. The good. The bad. The whole gamut. You aren’t here to impress anybody, you are here to get to know yourself better. You, like most people, are intricately complex and fascinating. Don’t worry about people judging you. Judgement is their problem, not yours.

The wonderful you shines through whether you are funny, sad, angry, or just plain frustrated. I guess friends just love their friends in toto or not at all.I consider you a friend. RYN: You would have loved Nettie and her dandelion causes. LOL

Im glad I got to read this before you made it private.

Maybe you can try and write more personal entries and then put them on private as you build up to writing more often and more genuine you will be able to eventually start writing entries for a public entry. (( Hugs )) Monica

This entry could have been written by me. I tend to write about the funny side of my life and keep the bad, mad and sads in private entries. Someone once left an anonymous note calling me annoyingly chipper, but only a fool would think that because you’re not writing about the down side, there isn’t one. Of course there is; I just can’t bring myself to share it with others. Warm hugs to you.

I too know exactly what you mean….actually your deep honesty comes out in your entries…

Marge Piercy has a terrific poem that I turn to (or at least think about) when I have those overwhelming moments. It’s called “For Strong Women,” from a collection of hers called The Moon is Always Female. I found it online at http://www.dragonflydream.com/Strong.html Keep hangin’ in there….

((((Sunshine Wolf)))) Yes, I can understand your points all too well. It’s hard to always be strong one, or the funny one, or whatever. I’ve been finding it hard to really bare my soul here also. Maybe it’s because I’m afraid of what the readers will really think. But please know that we will keep coming back here because we love you for all of who you are. *warmest hugs*

I understand you completely. I’ve always looked at life with humor, because I decided a long time ago that I’d cried ENOUGH in my life and I’d rather laugh. Humor helped get me through some of the worst times in my life, but ya know…..sometimes even I can’t laugh and be funny. Sometimes I want to vent to. I’d rather read an honest entry from someone, even if it’s not in their usual vein, than

read someone who thinks they’re a standup comic, the next Erma Freakin’ Bombeck, or whoever they think they are in their little mind. I used to read one Diarist here, but I quickly realized ALL her entries are just a stand-up routine…..she never writes how she feels about anything, it’s just the NEXT freakin’ stupid adventure written in excrutiatingly long detail. Sometimes I will copy/paste

entries into Word so I can read them at my leasure then go back and comment, and one of hers was FOUR pages long. That about did it for me. Go ahead and vent away when you feel like it, Ms. Wolf. I’d rather read an honest person than someone who wasn’t.

You’re one of my favorites not just because you’re funny and write so well. When you write about your students I learn about you caring, loving self. Entries about your father, sister, son and daughter all create an understandable, personal image of you. And it’s a beautiful image. I leave a lot of personal details out of my own diary. Maybe I’ll include them someday; maybe I won’t.

What makes you better than erma or other standups is that besides the funny you have that big heart that shines through, the respect you have for others, and the willingness to find some grain of goodness in everything you work with or around.

I’m with Starbright here. We all have different “comfort zones”, all write of our own lives, directly or indirectly, in our own styles, whether serious of funny (Oh to have your gift for seeing and writing about the humor of your life so brilliantly!) I find OD a gentle place, accepting and understanding frailties – but I still find it hard to write about my own failures. Don’t we all?

I’m reading odds and ends in your diary and came to this – it sounds a lot like how I feel, especially about not allowing any weaknesses to show.