What to Think When Bad Things Happen
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…
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…
Finding 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…
Sisterhood ~ 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…
Though 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…
Remembering My City of Ruins
It’s hard to fathom that it has been nine years since that fateful September morning in 2001. My experience of those moments had a profound and lasting impact on me as it has…