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...
I keep fighting the urge to apologize for how dreary my blog posts have been lately, but then I remind myself you come here freely and then I feel less guilty about the genuine out pour of my sad heart. Do not be mislead though...
I received a lot of response from last week's post. Honestly, it took me by surprise a little, but I was incredibly grateful for your words, messages, and check-ins. I was questioned more than once on the reason behind being so brutally honest about such gut-wrenching pain. Why spill...
When I was eighteen I was in a major car accident. My first weekend of college, I was heading back to campus and I happened to hydroplane and then flip my car on an Atlanta interstate. For a few seconds, my life slowed to a...
"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 it seems it is August already. Half of the year has already slipped through our fingertips; a multitude of moments forgotten or not, completely irretrievable. I can hardly believe it. I am just curious...
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...
This past Christmas (as in the one that was over just fifteenish days ago) was an odd one, to say the least. It took an unexpected turn when a couple of weeks before the holiday arrived, we decided to go to San Antonio, TX for the...
