it was over the noise and chaos of dinner the other night that i heard her familiar question asked around an unfamiliar table. words w...

even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief.  proverbs 14:13 it's okay to not be fine. it's okay to ...

there are some things i've learned as i come to the mid point of my life,  and should i be given another 37, almost 36 years, i'm su...

before the husband and the vows and our two lives becoming one and all of the trails that our one life has taken us on, before i knew what...

i don't think it matters. i think i'm becoming bold enough to say those words. i don't think it matters... you came home...

i hear them before i see them, that brother and sister with their hands intertwined and something clutched between all twenty fingers. i h...

it's the first of october and by now, i would have thought sweaters and socks and red noses would have been a part of our days. i even...

the sun is setting earlier and the air is turning crisper... i leave the windows open to let fall sneak in. and it was on an evening th...

it's as i'm driving home yesterday, turn right onto that loopy street when i look up at the temperature right there in the center of...

we are going through band-aids like they are going out of style. it doesn't seem to matter that the temperature has dipped and spring ...

the house was silent and everyone sleeping, except me and this keyboard sitting on top of my lap.  the tapping of keys pressed down rings ou...

they came back this spring, as slowly as this season appeared. one by one they began buzzing circles around small bodies and little ones w...