You Can’t Unthrow the Pebble
Too often, we don't truly assess the situation, ask people closer to the situation their perspective or insight, and we toss our pebble not considering the waves that will be created. Too often we toss a pebble of insult or lack of support and don't realize or perhaps don't even care that ten ripples out, we've created a disaster.
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.
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…
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…
My S.O. What! Valentine’s Day Proposal
Ignoring me, he got on one knee and grabbed my left my hand fully removing the big chocolate candy I was about to complain about him taking. It was actually a black ring box. My mouth dropped, and my heart started to beat out of my chest.
Yesterday I Would Have Been Married 7 Whole Years
I didn't even think about it until I logged onto Facebook and saw my friend's anniversary pictures and remembered that she had gotten married the day after I did (the year before).
What? I didn't think about it.
Nope, it didn't cross my mind…
A Mother’s Job
You never really know what to expect from a new job until you do it.
I've had several new jobs, but with each one, I quickly got the hang of it and got pretty comfortable, and new what to expect from day to day and year to year. The anxiety…
It’s Not My Place to Judge. Only to Help.
A couple of days ago, I did something I've done maybe 100 times now. I spoke at another school to another group of students, and it was just as fulfilling and exciting as my very first time.
Wonderful Girls
About 500 students, all girls,…
That’s Not How the Story Ends
On the first day of spring, my son welcomed his daughter into the world. On Easter Sunday, she turned one month old. I was so excited to take her, her mom, and my son to church to celebrate Christ's resurrection.
One of the songs the choir…
