I’ve been reflecting on some of the new frustrations in my work in furthering the cause for trauma survivors, and it occurs to me that I simply can’t get frustrated.

Considering just the small amount of anecdotal evidence I’ve amassed in the past several years of doing what I can to be a part of the issue of surviving trauma, it’s becoming sort of clear that we are a downtrodden and beaten down lot of folk. This really hit home the other night when I decided to turn to the new search engine Microsoft has put together called "Bing". I started off searching...

The Frustration of Wanting to Fix Things I’ve been trying to be on the forefront of Trauma Survivor Issues for some time now. The first step was to start this blog and the now defunct traumasurvivor.org—a stab at a community venue for survivors. The trauma survivor community clearly wasn’t ready to jump out and be heard. I guess that’s my first point of frustration. I now clearly understand...

Yes, I did write a couple of rants that did seem to have Paris Hilton squarely in my sites, but neither of those were "about" her, that is, not fashioned as a personal attack. Yes she did drive drunk and I called her on that, as I would call anyone who does so. Something about having killed a drunk driver myself gives me a sense of having a right to do so. It is that my own personal experience though,...

There’s the old saying… be careful what you wish for. I ranted that Paris should go to jail when she first was arrested on DUI. Of course, she was not sentenced to jail at that time, we still just slap folks on the wrist – well, some of the fines and hardships are no slap on the wrist for the average joe, but for Paris it SHOULD have been a piece of cake… but it wasn’t.

It’s all over the news, you have to live in a cave to not know that Paris Hilton was arrested for drunk driving a couple weeks ago. Today she was charged with the lesser of two possible charges in accordance with her blood alcohol level. She didn’t deserve that, she deserved getting the book thrown at her. No, this isn’t a rant about Paris, this is a rant about drunk driving. She was charged...

The point of this article is NOT to try to minimize the effects that 9/11 had on this country, far from it. Everyone in the US learned that day what it is like to have our lives turned upside down, even though for most, it was from a safe distance. Writing this on September 11th, I spent this morning watching the MSNBC rebroadcast of the Today show from 9/11. That was an interesting exercise for me, watching...

I made a promise to myself that I would not let my political bent filter into this blog, but I just can’t take it anymore. So folks… here comes a rant! For reference purposes, it’s August 12th, 2006. The war in Iraq still wages, the terrorists abound there, dare I say, we’ve turned it into a terrorist state. Israel and Lebanon (Hezbollah specifically) are at war and perhaps on the brink...

I just wanted to bookmark this particular spot in my story to make a point. It doesn’t take an intellectual to understand that what I’ve written in the past few days was (past tense) a heavy burden for me. When I wrote the article "Sick of the GodDamned Outline" this is exactly what I was talking about. I’m no brain child either, but I understand fully how ugly that story is and that...

For those that are offended by the title, my sincere apologies. I’m a christian, that word NEVER rolls off my tongue. You could subject me to torture trying to get me to say it, and you’d have to really turn up the heat to make me say it – and believe me, as a lot of trauma survivors, I KNOW torture in ways that few who have not experienced severe trauma do. HOWEVER, this is one subject that...