I finished this allegory for my daughter, as shown below. The first part of the story is in the last blog post.
I plan to print the story and send it to her apartment. I hope she checks her mail. I hope that she will read the dedication to her, understand in reading this story that […]
This story is dedicated to my younger daughter. She is strong, beautiful, and is wildly living life as a polar opposite to how we raised her. With every look, every word, every text, she tries to convey disdain, disrespect, and dislike for her parents, especially me…her mom. And yet…I love her. I will always love […]
I realized recently that of all the blogs I have written over the past few years, none of them have primarily been about my second oldest son. I think that it is because I tend to focus my writing on either painful situations that I am trying to emotionally work through or on an […]
God doesn’t need me to save the world.
Really.
God can choose to use others to help someone in need besides me. Sometimes I forget that. I see a need and in my overwhelming anxiety to “fix” everybody and everything, I lose track of the fact that I am not always the best one to do […]
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though […]
A lot of my blogs the past few months have been around the theme of choosing. As I reflect back on the reason why, I believe it is because I have finally come to understand that regardless of what is going on in my life, I always have some control.
In Viktor Frankl’s book, Man’s […]
When I thought about how to write that I’m moving forward a little bit at a time, the book The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper came to mind. I have always loved that story…the plucky little train engine that when faced with a big hill and an uncertainty with respect to success […]
I’m depressed. I think I would rather be just sad though in truth I am probably more than that. For those that know me though this is anonymous, don’t worry, I not suicidal…just writing out my feelings…attempting to blog my way out of this emotional state I am in.
I feel a bleak heaviness deep inside […]
Yesterday evening will forever be a memory I will cherish. My eldest son graduated from his police academy last night. As he and his classmates filed into the room packed with family and friends, I couldn’t help tearing up. I watched him walk in, straight and proud, all 6’7″ of him, and all I […]
It’s the end of the day and I am sitting against pillows on my bed with my laptop propped on my lap. I am weary to the core of my being right now. I have been dreading this day for weeks now and am glad the day’s events are behind me.
My husband and I […]
