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Patience with Heartache

Patience with Heartache

If I’m calculating correctly, the spring of my 7th grade year was 1989.  That was the year I attempted to take my own life because I was utterly distraught about having a disability, my best friend and grandma having died a few years before, and the world news...
Just Another Day

Just Another Day

Have you noticed how New Year’s resolutions would be so much simpler to keep if life didn’t have the super annoying habit of getting in the way?   I mean, on any given day there are countless distractions in our lives, from devastating fires in Los...
NOT a  Destination

NOT a  Destination

Getting stuck in apology mode and marinating in guilt over a mistake is not typically a productive way forward.  I know, I’ve gone down this rutted, worn, treacherous dirt road countless times. I know this.  Yet one morning fairly recently, I found myself tempted...
A Subtle Alarm

A Subtle Alarm

Certain health scares come into our lives as glaringly blaring as a car alarm going off outside the bedroom window at 3 AM!!!  Others can be much more subtle.  Quiet enough to easily ignore.  A few months back, I had my blood pressure taken and it was much higher than...
Making Peace with Hope

Making Peace with Hope

Ironically this holiday season, I’ve been thinking a bit about a time in my life when I lost all sense of celebration.  In seventh grade, I attempted to take my own life.   My hard times had begun some years earlier, during the summer following fifth...