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58Illinois Adventure?
by Patience Virtue
I find myself in Illinois, away from most of my family and all of my friends, living with a great-grandmother I barely know and a sister who barely knows me. Isn't life a funny thing? Every time I think I... published 3 months ago
62Going Home
by Patience Virtue
I'm going home today, and it's a different kind of feeling. I feel happy, yes, very happy. I feel tired, so tired and ready to go home. And I feel different from when I left, different from when I first... published 3 months ago
63Living With Sisters
by Patience Virtue
Living with teenage sisters can be tough. I haven't decided whether it was tougher when I was a teenager or now that I'm grown living at home and they are teenagers. It doesn't really matter, because either... published 8 months ago
72Siblings and Heartache
by Patience Virtue
I still remember the day we met Hope rather well, although some of the details are rather fuzzy. I was eleven and a half, a self-righteous, sheltered little girl, cocky in my bright red winter coat and eager... published 3 weeks ago
60An Epiphany of Stunning Proportions
by Patience Virtue
I saw myself clearly and it took me by surprise. No, really, I was amazed that I could miss that much and still be functioning as well as I was. But we humans are always so full of surprises, aren't we? Well,... published 6 months ago
62The Complexity of Relationships with Children
by Patience Virtue
It never before occured to me just how much complexity there is in the very idea of babysitting. I--the babysitter--am functionally replacing a child's parents for an evening. Or am I? What exactly is a... published 6 months ago
70True Love is Truly Misunderstood
by Patience Virtue
True Love: such an elusive creature, running up and tapping us on the shoulder then running away before we can grasp it in our hungry hands. I can't tell you when I began looking for it, for I'm sure that it... published 5 months ago
67Homeschooled or Homeschooler
by Patience Virtue
I was homeschooled from preschool all the way through twelfth grade (plus a stint of post-secondary college courses), but I would never, ever like to be known as a homeschooler. I prefer to think of myself as... published 8 months ago
72Living With Adoption and Autism
by Patience Virtue
Nearly seven years ago my family adopted two children, a brother and sister, into our home. We did not find out until four years later that both of these children had autism. Never, ever will we regret... published 8 months ago
67Submissive or Subservient
by Patience Virtue
I am naturally a rather passive person, so it is easy for me to take statements such as "turn the other cheek" to rather ridiculous extremes on occassion. I have been struggling lately with defining just how... published 8 months ago
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