Is Falling in Love really that Easy
Falling in love is the easy part. It is staying in love that is difficult. A lot of couples that I have observed fall in love by finding they have a lot in common, or they just seem to sync…
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Author Archive: Crystal Shimo
Stay at Home Moms are they under Appreciated
September 8, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
From the time they were brought home from the hospital I was with them. If you count the nine months they were in my stomach, I was with them from conception. The only exception being my oldest daughter who was…
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Why its Important to Listen to the Elderly
I was never really good at getting along with other people my age. It just so happens that I got along better with people a lot older than I was. Whenever I would visit my grandmother in the summers, I…
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Is Communication the Key to Overcoming Obstacles
When I was a teenager, and even a younger child, I was laughed at, told I was nothing, a geek, a nerd, that nobody wants around or wants to be seen with. As a daughter, I was told I was…
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The Art of Coping with Insults
February 28, 2015 Communication
Insults to one’s person can be very demeaning, depressing, hurtful, embarrassing, etc. They are meant to be anything but joyful or helpful comments. Normally the one giving the insults is trying to raise their own self-esteem by trying to drown…
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How to Clean Mud off of Shoes
Tips for cleaning muddy shoes. If it is your basic tennis shoe, or even a hard leather shoe, you can just rinse out the mud in the sink or bathtub. For the basic tennis shoe, you can dig out the…
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How to Remove Scuffs on your Shoes
How to remove scuffs on your shoes……. There are a few home remedies as well as special polish that can be bought to remove scuffs from ones shoes. If you have any cooking oil in the kitchen pantry, all you…
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When Parents don’t Agree with your Choice in Significant others
I was twenty, about to turn twenty one, and still living at home with my parents. I was a college drop out and working midnight shifts at a local twenty four hour gas station. In fact, I had just gotten…
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When does Sleep Deprevation become self Abuse
December 16, 2014 Crisis Support
For weeks on end as a teenager, I would refuse to sleep when my parents told me to. I wouldn’t simply refuse, I just wouldn’t. Even when I finally decided it was time for me to go to be, I…
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Understanding Constant Pain and Suicide
November 7, 2014 Crisis Support
My knee was a repeat offender. When I was eight, I had a tumor in my knee that caused me to fall every two steps I took. It was removed, but pain and stiffness continued throughout my life. When I…
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The Art of Tying your Shoelaces
You get up every morning, eat breakfast, take a shower, get dressed, put your shoes on, tie your shoelaces and walk out the door for work. It is an every day thing. People hardly think about it, and do not…
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The value of Parents in a Childs Life
You mother carries you in her womb for nine months. Your father and mother are there every day at bedtime (ideally), and there when you wake up. Eighteen years (ideally) of your life is spend under the same roof as…
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Why Adult Siblings should Work out their Differences
One of you being twelve, the other eight, you were playing in living room when your mother was in her home office doing some sort of work you didn’t really know about. Okay, so you were fighting. The eight year…
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