I’m sitting in a booth at a local breakfast place, the smell of bacon and coffee fills the air and, unexpectedly, tears fill my eyes. “Sometimes it feels like too much,” I say to my friends sharing...
The sun has long since slipped behind the horizon but I’m still at my computer. My back aches from sitting in the same chair. My mind feels like the inside of a beehive, full of restless buzzing....
As we start a new year, it’s easy to focus on goals and resolutions. Can we also take a moment to recognize all we’ve made it through? Maybe last year you got up on a day you didn’t feel like it,...
Of all the ways to make an entrance, no PR or Marketing firm would choose this one. Divine paradox. Blood and dirt. Animals and anonymity. No facebook or twitter or instagram. A hush slips through a...
I lost a spool of gold satin ribbon. I searched my basket of craft supplies, my closet shelves, the back seat of my car—where I did discover granola bar crumbs, lip gloss, and a church bulletin from...
I’m not an athletic sort of person. But I am married to one. And in an attempt to bond with my husband, I agreed to do a charity bike ride. I grew up in Texas, where the roads are smooth and the...
The average woman is born with two million eggs, a staggering number when you consider each one has the potential to become a human being with freckles and eyelashes, elbows and knee caps. A...
Dear You, has this season felt hard? You do your best and some days it still feels like it’s not enough. You wonder if everyone else might have it more together than you. But those are lies and...
I stand in front of the mirror and ask my reflection, “How could you have done that?” I think back to an incident yesterday where I was not at my best. As much as I want to, I can’t take back the...
In a world where everyone seems to be connected, it seems ironic that studies show we’re more isolated than ever before. We all have moments when we feel alone and that sense of separateness can...