I hesitate on my post title, because I think, “does anyone really care?” Yes, I know people care.  People care too much. Not about what I am saying, but they care too […]

Worry takes you nowhere. I’ve taken the long route to come to the place of accepting this truth that wise parents, and mentors, and friends, and teachers have told me and taught me over the years. I’d like to tell you that worry accomplishes nothing, but it actually does . . .

It all can look so put together . . .on the outside. A fashionable feed. A nice car. A new house. J. Crewcuts looking kids. What if we all looked a little closer. Behind the sunglasses. Past the surface.

Grace Grace.

Why is easy to give grace to others and not to ourselves?

Yes, forgiveness is a process. I don’t feel the looseness of freedom, after I say “I forgive you.”  Maybe, I will after ten or twenty or seventy times seven. Things […]

Do you ever try to reconcile yourself?

Who you were. Who you’ve become. Who you thought you’d be. Try to make all yourselves consistent with one another.

Today is my day. It’s my first. First day to sit and think and wonder and write out what the ingredients of a new year will be.

The holidays were never hard until they were hard. Christmas was the season where everything felt right.  It was magic when I was little, consistent and comforting in my teens, […]

When you find yourself at a stop. A stop is a pause, and in the pause a choice can be made as to which direction we take.

Happy almost Thanksgiving! Here it feels a bit more like Christmas.  We had a huge snowstorm.  I went to bed, Friday night, and woke up to Narnia, on Saturday.   […]