Do you do as you please? It’s so much easier to do it, all of it, for ourselves. Staring blankly at the wall, time feels slow, and abrupt all at once, and I let out a giant sigh. I hear William through the walls singing his version of goodnight prayers and Grayson is moaning himself […]
Love you, babe. That’s what my PopPop always said, to everyone. It didn’t matter who you were. And this is the PopPop I knew the last many years. I’ve been at a loss for words since he passed. The last week has felt like a blur. And I’ve missed him so much already. To think […]
29 thoughts for 2019 and my twenty-ninth year, through hands wide open. Take them, leave them, share them, but most of all thanks for reading them. You all have been such a tremendous gift to me this year as I navigate the balance of words and this seemingly always chaotically, beautiful life. 1. Peace can […]
Do you know that feeling when if you haven’t reconciled you either want to throw up, run away or hide in the bathroom until someone drags you out by your feet? When I reconcile, it’s generally with people I’m strung in a tension and imbalance with. My heart, my mind and even the places my […]
I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many […]
In a day that craves authenticity and vulnerability, I think we have to turn our discerning ears up to what is real and what is disingenuous, or even problematic. Here me when I say, or read it as I write, I think they are two of the most beautiful gifts we can give the world. […]
Where there is life there is hope I want you to hear me saying it, that is where I’m rooted. But here is where I’m at. Sharing is not to normalize depression or anxiety or to simplify and speak generally about mental health. It’s to deconstruct how comfortable — or how uncomfortably okay — we […]
My phone is dead, my teething seven month old is sleeping in my lap, my right arm is going numb and I can’t reach the netflix remote or any of the many books I am currently “reading”. What good am I serving? I laugh, but parts of me also want to cry. What am I […]
Until there’s not. “Time is for dying in a thousand ways, so why be afraid of dying when a kind of dying could come all the time? Live every day like you’re terminal. Because you are. Live every day like your soul’s eternal. Because it is.” (Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way) We spend so much of our […]
Let’s see how quickly I can get these thoughts to “paper” while Jeff is making my favorite…pizza. Marriage. How many words flood my mind when I hear the word? Oh so so so many. What words flood yours? My husband married a difficult woman. I’m no walk in the park. I’m more of a scramble […]
