Category: Hardships

Gone With The Wind (1939)

On the eve of the American Civil War, Scarlett (Vivien Leigh), the daughter of a Southern rancher, falls in love with Ashley (Leslie Howard), the son of another rancher, and is rejected. During the war, Scarlett becomes a widow, loses her mother, and takes on the burden of life, no longer being the young lady…


What’s Happened to Emotional Resilience?  

My friend Jane was lamenting the fact that her 10-year-old daughter would be coming home from camp early. Jane had finally given in; she couldn’t take any more sobbing phone calls from her daughter about how awful camp was and how the girls in the cabin were bothering and mistreating her. My friend was confused…