Ruth is my younger sister. I love her profoundly.      George Caywood

I was born on Easter Sunday, April 14, 1946. The story is that I interrupted my father’s Easter dinner. I was the 6th of 6, four girls and two boys. My parents met when they were nest door neighbors in Tucson, Arizona.
My mother came from [...]

-Raising my children was far easier for me than raising me was for my parents. That is true because there was far more good information available to me than they had.
-My Dad taught me to read. We had devotions on my mom and dad’s bed every night. Each child took a turn reading a verse [...]

-The myth that all kids need is quality time is a damaging myth. Kids need time and lots of it.
-Kids need to believe in their hearts that when they speak their parents hear and respond to them with care and kindness. The program saying applies here. “Say what you mean, mean what you say but [...]

It was big, exciting news when your mother told me she was pregnant. Your family waited, with very limited patience, for you to be born. All our friends and neighbors  were  thrilled with us at the prospect of another Caywood child. As soon as you were born, your sisters put up a big pink flag [...]

-Faith seems to me to be the result of seeing change in myself and in others. That’s why it is good for me to go to some of the same  meetings each week and share often. If I do that, I can hear of others growth and they can hear mine.
-Faith comes by hearing and [...]

-I do better with boundaries if I develop my boundaries with the help of my sponsor.
-The first thing I need in order to set meaningful boundaries is a powerful determination to be myself.
-The most basic boundary is giving myself permission to say no.
-In setting my boundaries, my need to explain why I set the boundary [...]

I went to a great meeting this morning. The topic was perfectionism.
-I After I shared, I was filled with dread because I did not think my pitch was perfectly delivered.
-I hate seeing that I have not perfectly dealt with my perfectionism.
-My humanity is included in the love covenant I have with my Higher Power. To [...]

-I could not possibly count high enough to count the fears that the passage of time has proven to be totally baseless.
-When I first started my recovery, I often listed the things I was afraid of in the morning. That evening, I reexamined my list and noted how many of my morning fears had proven [...]

-Practice makes perfect is a deadly idea for me. Practice makes progress works.
-”Do your best’ is a threatening idea. I guess I feel that way because growing up, I did my best to do my best and it was never good enough. “Now My aim is to the best I can today given my situation [...]

There once were two girls named Mayer,
Who were smart, wise and wondrously fair.
They gave me my “Bad Jokey” name,
That shows the source of my fame.
It’s my hope that I can soon see their lair.
—GMC
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When I was a very young girl
I had a cat white as a pearl.
After his nap
He would sit in my lap
and there [...]