Category: Life as I know it

  • My 5

    My 5

    I need to write or I’m going to explode. I stepped away from writing for a while because I had a deadline, or I had CPE and I was driving back and forth to Birmingham and Jasper. Then it was quarantine and managing my depression. Any way you look at it I stepped away from…

  • On Starting Over

    Starting over is hard. Moving to a new city, finding a new job, starting kids at a new school, learning to find a new favorite grocery store… its a lot of new, and a lot of tough stuff. This past year has been a year of starting over for us. We finally moved from outside…

  • Then They Were Boys…

    I with I’d known how great it would be.

  • Stop Unfriending People Over Politics

    So. There’s some sort of political stuff going on right? My guess is, if you haven’t been sequestered or living under the proverbial rock (where are these rocks people live under anyway…) then you have heard plenty about politics. There are inflammatory statements being made over every media outlet social and otherwise, on both sides,…

  • When there are no words…

    When there are no words…

    What if we started responding to these trials and tragedies of life with presence instead of platitudes. What if, instead of throwing out words and seeing what sticks, we simply said… “I love you, I’m here, tell me what you need”.