My Terminally Ill Child is Teaching Me How to Live
I am often reminded of the inner strength and sheer maturity of spirit embodied by my 9-year-old son. He has…
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I am often reminded of the inner strength and sheer maturity of spirit embodied by my 9-year-old son. He has…
Continue ReadingSometimes marriage is making lemon bars for your person. I’m not a lemon bar person. If I’m gonna enjoy a…
Continue ReadingThese past few weeks have hit my family hard in a variety of ways. My marriage is going through a…
Continue ReadingWe argued about an orange last night after dinner. Not even a large orange. A tiny mandarin. As emotions escalated…
Continue ReadingWherever you are right now, you won’t be there tomorrow. Life just keeps crashing in, day by day, pushing in…
Continue ReadingI have been invited to four celebrations of life in the last four months. Each one of these lives, from…
Continue ReadingIt was a beautiful day. A day so beautiful that I hyped myself out of a depressive fog. Or at…
Continue ReadingBeing a new mom can be scary enough in and of itself. Now add being a teenage mom of a…
Continue ReadingWho were you before? Back then? Before the lines, before the aches, before time took your strength away? Who were…
Continue ReadingMy 9-year-old was hit by a car. We were early for church, and I had told him he could ride…
Continue ReadingI looked out my kitchen window this morning and watched my little boy swinging and singing in the sunshine. And…
Continue ReadingLast fall, my 87-year-old grandmother moved into the nursing home. And as my last living grandparent, it has hit me…
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