I have to admit that I love the irreverent phrase “sh*! happens” because too often in life there is just no explanation for the obstacles we face. The first time I heard the expression I laughed, a bit uncomfortably no doubt. I don’t even remember the context. Like all comedy…
View More What to Think When Bad Things HappenMonth: October 2010
The Road to Change
Change ~ it can be inviting, even magnetic, or it can be terrifying and overwhelming. It can be something we latch on to at every possible opportunity. We imagine that making a change will fix our problems or fill the emptiness we feel. Maybe a new job, a new city,…
View More The Road to ChangeFinding Courage in Adversity
I think of my father more often these days. At sixty-six, like his father before him, he had a stroke and lost the use of the right side of his body. At the time I was only twenty-five, and while I admired the determination and perseverance he displayed throughout his…
View More Finding Courage in AdversitySisterhood ~ A Woman’s Strength
In the last couple of days a comforting image has come to mind on more than one occasion. The car accident my husband and I were in ten days ago shook us to the core. Though we weren’t seriously injured, rolling over four times did a little more than addle…
View More Sisterhood ~ A Woman’s StrengthThough I May Never Know Your Name
My psyche, or perhaps more accurately my spirit is bereft and cluttered with the shattered glass and twisted metal that now lies far behind us in a desolate junk yard… small bits embedded in my skin a constant reminder. The sun now spreads glorious warmth across my shoulders as I…
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