I Buried My Heart with My Baby but God Brought Me Back to Life
Recently, my world felt as if it were crashing around me. I was so angry I think my rage could…
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Recently, my world felt as if it were crashing around me. I was so angry I think my rage could…
Continue ReadingMy mom died. She died, but I became free. For the very first time in my life, I’m not worried…
Continue ReadingIt's the flower food packet that gets you. That little plastic packet with the powder that keeps your flowers alive…
Continue ReadingSitting at a McDonald’s table in Charleston, SC, I looked down at my ill-fitting shirt and shorts. Stress had taken…
Continue ReadingI had a dream about my mom last night. It’s rare when this happens but last night's dream was unlike…
Continue ReadingYou think it’s going to be the big holidays that are hard. The first Thanksgiving without her. The first Christmas.…
Continue ReadingTrigger warning: post discusses death and loss The cool air shocked my sweltering face as I walked into the doors…
Continue Reading“I take you for my lawful wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse,…
Continue ReadingHolidays. Birthdays. The day they physically left us. These are the ones that hit the hardest—the toughest days. But they…
Continue ReadingFor those of you reading this who do not know me, on January 28, 2021, at 12:20 p.m., my husband…
Continue ReadingIt’s so utterly destructive. It’ll knock the wind—no the very oxygen—out of your sails. It’s nauseating. Conflicting. Terrifying. And so…
Continue ReadingAs I write this, my mother-in-law is in the ICU. We don’t expect her to leave. She’s too young. Sixty-four.…
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