Elder Abuse and Neglect are Rampant Even While Concealed I am currently concerned by a friend who is a victim of elder abuse in her own home and it’s breaking my heart that she is refusing help from me, as well as from a “neutral” person. She insists that there’s…

Who Are You Taking Down With You? Sooner or later, almost every one of us will draw a line in the sand that sprouts a sign essentially saying, “This far, and no more!” Whether it’s a spiteful in-law, a vigilante neighbor, a bullying co-worker, or a sneering, upper-crust woman-chaser, we…

Maybe We Should Just Rent a Front Loader and Be Done With It. Most of us probably aren’t downsizing for the fun of it. We’ve been forced into this backbreaking, stressful hassle by employers who forced us out of our remote jobs, and who now are begging us to go…

Hello, I want to introduce myself. @shirleyannparker.medium.com I was born in a small town in the south of England. That is to say, in the UK. I was raised there until my Dad hauled the family up to his home city in Yorkshire when I was in my teens.

They Survive By Wrecking Your Life They park at an angle to my house late at night or early in the morning and leave their headlights on for an hour or turn them off and on, and these days, they’re mostly halogen lights. Sometimes, they trigger a neighbor’s LED spotlights…

What’s The Difference, Anyway? In my mind, getting in trouble just for the heck of it, is a waste of everyone’s time and energy, and usually a waste of other people’s money or belongings. None of us has any right to ruin other people’s possessions or even worse, other people’s…

And Yes, I’m Still A Real Writer I haven’t held a lot of respect for people who claim real writers write every day, even if they’re in the hospital or are recently bereaved. I always considered that rather elitist attitude to be close to BS, especially coming from those who…

Too Often It Is Exactly That I can only speak for myself and on what I’ve observed about love too often being conditional; I cannot speak for everyone or even every victim, but I know absolutely I wasn’t specifically singled out for any of this nonsense by myself. What I’ve…

When It’s Only You I have learned too late never to make 90% of your friends in your church group. Have a wider circle, in fact, overlapping circles when you can. Even though your own beliefs probably won’t change, your church friends won’t always be there for you when you…