Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Thanksgiving is here. I am grateful for many, many things. Every day I count my blessings…really. My life is pretty, dang good most days. Sure I have struggles and challenges, […]
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
When Eat, Pray, Love released years back, I read it. I enjoyed it and I even read Liz Gilbert’s sequel to it and enjoyed it too. When the movie came […]
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Since the end of last month, my world has been in a state of flux. Those last few weeks of July, I was feeling impatient, edgy, and frustrated. I didn’t […]
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Right after I was widowed, my heart was raw. It was wide open, exposed, and vulnerable to all and any heartache that I saw and heard. It didn’t matter if […]
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
I was a youth minister when the Columbine school shooting occurred many years ago. It was my first experience with public tragedy that affected youth directly during my professional ministry. […]
Saturday, April 13, 2013
I think one of the strangest places that my journey of widowhood has taken me is this place of discovery. Discovery brought forth by the need to survive. This new […]
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Years ago, I thought I’d be settled by now. I thought I’d have found my way. I thought, well, I thought. I imagined. I had no idea how life would […]
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
When my husband died, I knew it would be important to my boys to have men around and in their lives. Since they would no longer have their trail guide, […]
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