Title image: RawPixel “Handcuff”, is Public Domain, licensed under CCO
The last time I wrote a blog (two weeks ago), I sat in a coffee shop and wrote while my daughter was being sentenced to prison in another state. I found out the details several days later when the sentence was posted online. This is […]
Blog title image credit: Stockvault “American Justice Illustration” licensed under Public Domain CCO
I should be at work but have taken the day off as part of a plan to get through a difficult day, like mentally preparing for the labor of delivering a baby. Labor is not at all fun but breathing through it […]
Blog title image is Picryl “Cartoon Girl” Public Domain is licensed under PDM 1.0 Deed.
I bought a little book for my husband a few years ago, called Make Your Bed. I highly recommend it. The author is Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired) and the book is based on a commencement speech he […]
Image Attribution: Public Domain “Cross” is licensed under CCO
After posting my dark blog last week, I (weirdly) felt a bit lighter in spirit, as if the heaviness of my soul was lifted after sending those words out into cyberspace. Along with slightly more positive thinking this past week, I have had a growing realization […]
Image Title Attribution: Wikimedia Commons “Don’t Worry” by Vincerama is licensed under CC BY 3.0 DEED
I don’t know how to be happy as a sustained state of being. I can be happy for moments and I have been trying to find joy in little things, but I struggle to be overall content with where […]
Title illustration: Sunshine by Joy and Gladness by DeviantArt by Yesterdays-Paper – CC BY 3.0 DEED
In a little over a month, my daughter will be sentenced to prison. It will be for years, not months. I am unable to fathom what this will be like. She will miss so much of what life should […]
Title Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons “Noun emotion 1325508” by Arafat Uddin Licensed under CC BY 4.0
When I flew back with my four-month-old, adopted daughter, from her home country to my home, a prison scenario was not in my head as her future. I am furious; or maybe I am depressed mixed with grief. At […]
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My husband’s 108-year-old grandmother passed away on Monday, Jan 29th. Today is Friday, Feb 2nd, only four days later. Except for a few hours Monday afternoon when my husband and I went across town to pick up her personal effects from the care facility, I have continued showing up each day […]
Was it only in March that I wrote the “Jail to Job to Joy” blog? That was just ten weeks ago. After six years of what I thought was upright living by my oldest daughter, I became convinced that I needed to relax my guard and celebrate her. I thought I could finally look […]
I have a soft spot in my heart for English cottages with country gardens. No matter that I live in a different country. In my mind’s eye, I see myself as retired in the “cutest cottage ever”, pottering around in a verdant garden filled with a riotous display of colorful flowering plants, somehow growing […]
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