by Hollye Dexter | Aug 9, 2014 | being fired, hope through adversity, How to survive betrayal, life lessons, surviving disaster, surviving loss, the power of positive thinking
When I got fired from my job in June, it pretty much knocked me flat. Not only had this been a job, it had been a calling. Add to that the betrayal by people I’d thought were my friends. My true friends rushed in to lift me, like emotional EMTs. Amy said, “You...
by Hollye Dexter | Jul 17, 2014 | Grief, surviving disaster, surviving loss
Tammey and I, talking about life. My cousin Tammey and I were born just months apart and grew up together like Irish twins. Our mothers are sisters. Sometimes, she and my cousin Tracey lived at my house. When my mom’s life was falling apart, we lived at their...
by Hollye Dexter | Nov 19, 2012 | faith, fire loss, hope through adversity, Hurricane sandy victims, surviving catastrophe, surviving loss
Love is a lot like fire. A small flame will be extinguished with the slightest puff of air, but put wind to wildfire, and watch what happens. In my experience, tragedy was the wind- the small wind that killed every small flame, the Santa Anas that caused love to erupt...