I Try So Hard to Control My Life—But It’s Not Mine to Control
I have asked more than my fair share of whys in my lifetime. Why me? Why now? Why this? But…
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I have asked more than my fair share of whys in my lifetime. Why me? Why now? Why this? But…
Continue ReadingThis was supposed to be an amazing year. It began with an optimistic to-do list and lots of achievable goals.…
Continue ReadingNew Year’s resolutions are my least favorite thing. This year’s top resolution is to “be a better person”. Maybe this…
Continue ReadingIt was the summer of 2013, and the mood in our apartment was light and celebratory. My first pregnancy had…
Continue ReadingMy little girl twirled around the living room in her brand new Sunday dress. "Dance with me, Daddy," she called…
Continue ReadingI remember a Christmas—I had to have been about 11—when my single mother took me aside one day and said,…
Continue ReadingBe patient my child. Four little words that held me through the miscarriage of our first child, to our daughter’s…
Continue ReadingHaving a child with a terminal illness is truly every parent's nightmare, and a grief that too many know. Every…
Continue ReadingMy husband is agnostic, and I'm like a non-denominational Christian mutt who floats around from church to church waiting for…
Continue ReadingI stopped praying. In the beginning, I prayed. I prayed for strength and courage. I prayed for forgiveness, for me…
Continue ReadingWe were going to be late . . . again. I still had to get my 4-year-old daughter into the…
Continue ReadingSo, I have this little secret. I admit, I can’t face life alone. I just can’t, it’s too hard. If…
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