My internal tension is really working on me, lately. Let me see if I have what the world/ media/conventional wisdom says is right: We have a gazillion hats to wear, a gazillion boxes we must fit into so we can be understood by others? The approach I believe we should take is different. What do
Category: Family
For Christmas when I was a little girl, the family went in together and bought Granny a big, comfortable, recliner. As the baby of her grandchildren, I was the only one who was tiny enough to fit in her fancy chair with her. I asked if I could sit with her. In case you all
This is a very special blog post. I hope you all will indulge me. Yesterday, this blog’s social media accounts combined hit a big milestone. Over 4,000 people follow this blog through various social media accounts. I honestly feel like crying happy tears. it is the kind of milestone I could only dream about when
Erin Napier from HGTV’s Hometown inspired this post. Thanks Erin! On Instagram before the new year, she said she, her husband Ben, and their friends all agreed their children were not getting cell phones or using social media while they were growing up. Erin’s post made me think about how different I would be as
The past two months have triggered my trauma in many ways. I thought I had dealt with some of the trauma that’s come to the surface already. Turns out, dealing with trauma and unpacking it is a process of dealing with emotional and physical response landmines. Dealing with trauma and healing from it is not
I want to wish all my followers in the US a very Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow. Please celebrate safely. This year I find myself even more grateful than usual. This has been a very rough year for my blood family and I. In some ways, it feels like this year went by in the blink of
Yesterday was three years since I pushed launch on this blog. This post is a thank you to all the people who have helped make this blog possible. I hope you all will indulge me in these thank you’s and know I mean them from the bottom of my heart. The first goes to God:
I am working on being more comfortable and more vulnerable around the people who love me. My default is to say I am OK when I am not. I do not want to burden anybody with my problems because life is hard for everybody. what I am learning is that by being vulnerable with the
This is a blog post honoring two men I love very much for Father’s Day. Dad: You have always treated my CP as something that limits me in some ways, sure, but never as a reason for me not to dream as big as possible. I’m blessed that you and mama always see possibilities not
I love my mama very much. When she gave birth to me about eight weeks early because of listeria we weren’t supposed to make it through delivery because of infection. We’re both still here. That fact is quite literally a miracle. Because of our circumstances we have a very unique bond. Mama teaches me to