When I was a kid, growing up in church, I heard a lot about right and wrong. The whole stereotype message of the Baptist preacher "hell fire and brimstone." Yeah, I was buried deep in that. I remember when I was eight and realized I...
What if you're not alone? What if you're understood? What if you're watched over? What if you're protected? What if you're loved? What if that love has no conditions? What if you have to do nothing to be accepted? What if you're special? What if you're beautiful? What if beauty is inscribed on your...
It occurred to me the other day that no one writes their story while livingtheir story. We don't write our story while living it because we don't know the ending. It's too scary to write a story you don't know the ending to. We want...
The other night I posted a picture of my tear-stained face on Instagram. (Ok...
I've been writing about pain a lot lately. It's not that pain is all I have to talk about. I have been intentional about watching sunsets, noticing the phases of the moon, and how brightly the stars shine as the night gets darker. I have...
"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." {Henry James} When I was a youngster, I was intrigued by light bulbs. In the same way that I was unable to stop staring...
"So bear with people that their unpleasantness and maliciousness and cruelty will never drive us to bitterness, that their unteachableness will never drive us to despair, that their folly will never drive us to irritation and that their unloveliness will never alter our love."*The world...
Tomorrow is the celebration of an event that -- like so many others -- has been dwindled down to pastel colors, spring fever, colored eggs, furry, cute field animals, and the second (only to Halloween) highest candy selling holiday of the year. But it is truly...
Remember that time when my nana told me my whole life that she woke up one morning, after turning twenty-five, and she realized what life was and so, thus, when I turned twenty-five the world magically made more sense -- colors brightened, details increased, and...