Rising from Ruins

I remember the grandmother who raised me saying, “You’ll never know how much your heart can love till you have your own children.” And she […]

Year seven also means my sweet Addi turns seven in a few months. She has no idea how she saved us or how much God […]

April 2025 marks SEVEN years since learning the truth that changed my life and, in some ways, who I am as a person. I pray […]

God has done such good things for me that I fully expected to walk into that transmission shop yesterday and the man tell me I […]

I cried about a transmission today. Like ugly-cry sobbing… On Friday, while my boys were driving to school, a line from the transmission to the […]

While talking about our upcoming family holiday gatherings, my twenty-one year old said, “Christmas just isn’t the same.” I knew immediately what he meant. He’s […]

There’s a heavy feeling in the air in my little town today. A heaviness in the general spirit of the citizens. Police cars stationed strategically […]

My oldest son came back from his summer job, took his truck the next day for an oil change and full tank of gas, and […]

Back in the Winter some time, a cat showed up on my porch. It looked like it had lived eight of its nine lives. The […]

…from a sleep-deprived rambling mind. I remember the grandmother who raised me saying, “You’ll never know how much your heart can love till you have […]