Facebook is NOT my Friend
I’m scrolling down my Facebook news-feed. Images begin to rattle my heart. A friend looking sexy in her bikini. A birthday party I wasn’t invited to. Pinterest perfect meals I could never recreate. A mother with her kids enjoying Disneyland, ice-cream...
Top 5 Rules of Writing and Blogging
Perhaps you are a fellow writer, or blogger. Perhaps you are a wanna-be writer or wanna-be blogger. If so this post is especially for you. But let me clarify something I am all too aware of… I am no seasoned writer. Not yet. Nor am I an editor. Or publisher....
I Remember…
It's my nieces birthday today. She would have been 19. She left this earth a little over a year ago. She struggled with a mental disorder and depression issues. She took her life as a result. I still get sad whenever I think of her being gone. I actually get...
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[When God Speaks]: Faith Found Through an Unexpected Guest
Have you ever experienced an incidence when God speaks through an unexpected guest? On this particular night this is exactly what happened. I had just put all three of my toddlers to bed, did a quick skim of the kitchen—meaning the normal wipe down of the...
Daughters of the King: Guest post at (in)courage!
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” {John 15:13, NASB} Everything was unfamiliar to me. The sounds. The smells. Even the people seemed different here. We didn’t know a single person, my husband and I, in this giant city...
A change of perspective
Have you ever had to runaway from the moment, to protect you and your children from the wrath of a super-strung-out-mommy ready to explode? Oh ladies I've been there. All too recently in fact. Sometimes it's just too much. After breaking up 22 fights today...
The Art of Friendships
The weight of failed friendships over the years still seems to roar its ugly head at me; painful percussion effects from loss and betrayal that at times feels too great a burden to bear. Over the past few years, I have untangled the deeper understanding of this...
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