On Life & Laughter

From today's Facebook post... Before he became The Hubs, and I, his well-meaning wife, there was this moment... Thirty-six...

I stumbled upon these half-written reflections that began on Mother's Day. My life is littered with unfinished projects, so in a rare bu...

It had already been an emotional morning -- revisiting another grief, decades old. But isn't that the way of grief? Sneaking into ordin...

At an event this Saturday night, we were reminiscing with a hometown friend about the haunted house we'd grown up attending, Hagel'...

It came to me in a sun-soaked moment while contemplating the pages of another's story... Learning the posture of hands held open - re...

Hear me, Lord, and answer me,     for I am poor and needy. ~ Psalm 86:1 Monday: As the birds chatter away in the midday sun, I find a ...

I was the fun girl who went through life with my happy face on, even when I was dying inside. Sometimes I'm still that girl. Being ...

I am hemorrhaging. Not literally, but it feels that way. Life is in the blood... and I am bleeding. So much around me is bleeding out. ...

Sometimes the ache on the inside  steals my breath and grinds my insides Really? Again?  Can't this - peopling -  ever be simpl...

The list clamors in my head, "Do this  first! No, this!  You should! You must!" I can't bear all this yelling. Despite so...

Oh, the thoughts I do not write out loud The thoughts concealed from others yet not wholly hidden The ones weighed heavy discontent...

So many days are not tidy. So many circumstances just won’t be tidied, not any time soon, anyway. Part of me is ok w...

" Obedience gives me courage ,"  she says.  Somehow this seems ripe for a sequel...or, perhaps, a prequel...which is just my fanc...