It was a frigid 21° outside when I woke up yesterday. Seeing that low temperature reading on the weather app of my phone made me […]
A Timely Gift
When I was a little girl, my MawMaw Hale would invite all her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to our house at Christmas time. The tree […]
Roots of Rejection
Preface: This blog contains memories from early childhood that have impacted me in adulthood. I share them here solely for the sake of painting that […]
Moving. And moving on.
Moving from my Willowbrook house was a bittersweet thing, even though I knew it was the right thing. From the day the real estate agent […]
Home
My mom and dad divorced before I was born. Based on pictures of my earliest days, she and I lived with her parents – my […]
Survivor
For all our married years, we had done most everything together as a family. Over half my life to that point consisted of day-to-day memories […]
Grief 2
Grief is more than sadness. It’s a journey through a range of emotions over an indeterminate length of time with the hopeful eventual destination being […]
Grief
“How long will you grieve…?” I was reading through 1 and 2 Samuel in September 2018, studying the life of David – the best example, […]
Forgiving Is Not Forgetting
It was during football season that year that someone suggested I needed to forgive. And they were right, of course. Without forgiving, bitterness would take […]
Cordial Co-parents
I think the hardest part of the entire divorce was telling the children and trying to keep life “normal” for them. My oldest son intermittently […]