Knitnut.net.

Watch my life unravel...

Categories

Archives

Top Canadian Blogs - Top Blogs

Local Directory for Ottawa, ON

Subscriptions

Your childhood - a poll

Just curious….did you have a good childhood?

If you’re reading this in a feed reader or email, you’ll need to visit www.knitnut.net to answer the poll question. Rest assured, all responses are anonymous.

Did you have a good childhood?customer surveys

More buried evidence

Last week commenter Kim Bosch laughed about the fact that I literally buried a lie when I was eight years old, which reminded me of other lies I buried that year. Eight, apparently, was the Year of Burying Incriminating Evidence. I puzzled over this while reminiscing. What deep psychological forces were at work that would […]

The tangled web

When I was a kid, I told lies because I was afraid to tell the truth. A lie was often the only possible way out of the path of my mother’s anger, so I always tried it, even though it didn’t usually work and usually led to a more severe punishment.

I also felt profoundly […]