Personal Journeys with Gramma

Life adventures, inspiration and insight; shared in articles, advice, personal chats and pictures.

The Emotional Suffocation of Self

    What happens when you try to suppress who you are? Many of us have had the experience since we needed to fit in, to please, to match an … Continue reading

June 2, 2023 · Leave a comment

Don’t Ask–BECOME!

Recently, a friend told me I’m lucky my husband allows me to be myself. Allows? He loved and married me as myself. And no one asked him if I could continue … Continue reading

June 29, 2019 · 2 Comments

Cherishing Lady Slipper People

When I was in second grade, our assignment was to create a scrapbook of pressed wildflowers, labeling each. Since I loved wildflowers then as now—including those called weeds, I was … Continue reading

June 22, 2019 · Leave a comment

Welcome!

All are friends who enter here—the kind who care enough to tell the truth, albeit gently.  “Gramma” is an ideal of unconditional good will, an attempt to be brave, kind, … Continue reading

July 16, 2016 · 7 Comments

To Burst Past Limitations: “Take it until you make it.”

Many of us live within limitations we see as hopeless walls around us.  (“I’m not smart/good/strong/attractive… enough.”)  We stumble beneath the criticisms and betrayals of others.  But are we victims … Continue reading

January 3, 2016 · Leave a comment

Welcome 2016!

Here we are, standing with our tiptoes on the cliff of 2016, wondering what lies ahead.  We’re told the darkness, disaster, and strife we’ve endured in 2015 was the preface … Continue reading

December 30, 2015 · Leave a comment

Change, Change, Change

The one certainty we have going into a new year is that things will change.  What “things?”  We don’t know.  That’s the mystery.  Some of us have specific goals to … Continue reading

December 29, 2014 · Leave a comment

WELCOME 2014!

No year is ever entirely horrible.  In 2013 some great people were born.  People extended kindnesses to strangers.  Heroes emerged.  My daughter and I found a way to reach out … Continue reading

January 1, 2014 · Leave a comment

Just the beginning…

When my grandmother died, I felt like someone had blasted a giant crater into the core of my life—a black hole that threatened to suck away all the joy left … Continue reading

December 30, 2013 · Leave a comment

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