But it’s SO Hard to Understand
Hurt is an understatement of how if feels when people you love or people who can do harm to you don't understand you or your situation. You can't control anyone else, and you can't make anyone listen, like you, relate, or even care. But you can control you. And you can try to be a more understanding person. I'm crazy enough to believe that eventually the understanding will be returned to you.
Trust. A Prerequisite for Vulnerability?
vulnerable- susceptible to physical or emotional attack or ha
3 Years and 5 Reasons Why I Almost Gave Up on Entrepreneurship But Did Not
I knew I had to go. The only question was when.
10 Lessons it Took Me 37 Years to Learn
However, in the last few years, I have made deliberate efforts to celebrate myself. My life.
Make Your Life Count: One Weekend, Two Funerals, and Three Things I Learned
For the first time in my life, I attended the homegoing services of two people in one weekend.
One was for a woman who had lived a long, full life and the other...she was my age. Only thirty-six years old.
In totally different ways but both…
How Sharing My Story Became a College Course
"Dreams Do Come True...Even the Ones You Didn't Even Know You Had."
Everything Comes Full Circle
Many times in life we wonder why certain things happen to us or why we meet certain people.
And often, we don't think twice about some events or some people. But one thing I have seen over and over again in my life is that...
Everything…
Use Your Refund to Get Ahead
This is an updated version of a post I wrote last year.
As I hear about how people are using (or in some cases, wasting) their sometimes large income tax refunds. I felt compelled to share my story again about how I used tax time every year…
Love Yourself
If you read my last blog, then you read about my beautiful Valentine's Day proposal.
I really hate spoiling the story for anyone who hasn't read my book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, but these two…
