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Maybe It Starts Simply By Saying, “I Hear Your Hurt.”

For years I haven’t put much thought to racism. I’m ashamed to say it, but it’s true. I’ve been taught my whole life not to…

“I. DON’T. WANT. TO!!” The yelling gets louder and louder as she stomps on her bed staring me down with a scrunched up angry face. “Eliana,…

Not long ago my youngest son asked me, “What do you hope I’ll be when I grow up?” My first reaction was to say what I’ve said before when my…

I don’t usually shop at Trader Joe’s, that is my husband’s domain. He goes for the Roquefort cheese, coconut milk, artichoke hearts…

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need someone to care for the sick, the fragile, the broken, and the…

Grief makes us uncomfortable. Being face to face with someone else’s intense sadness is really hard. In my life, people feel doubly awkward because…

“I like your tattoo,” I said to my server as I tried to hide myself from the other restaurant patrons. With my back to the rest of the…

A few months after my husband died, I was scrolling through Facebook and kept seeing this quote that a number of my friends had posted. It read:…

The joyful anticipation of the beginning of summer break became tainted with disappointment as we walked home from school that day. My fifth grade…

Sweet mamas, I needed to share the heart of a labor and delivery nurse with you. I just finished a weekend of 12-hour night shifts in a usually…