Embrace who you are
This was the post I didn't want to write. It's too real, too vulnerable. The things I'm about to share are the things I want to secretly stash away in my own mind. These are the thoughts I want to lie to the world about, pretending they don't affect me, too. And I could do that. ...
Now that I'm in my mid-twenties, there are a number of things I wish I could go back and tell my younger self. Here are a few of the things I'd say if I could back and have coffee with my early-twenties self. View post
Yesterday, a friend called me on the phone. I answered and the first words out of her mouth were, "I hope it's okay I'm calling you instead of texting." I responded with, "Of course it's okay!" as we continued our conversation. That brief exchange has me thinking more deeply though about an apparent issue in our ...
I escaped to the beach today to gather my thoughts about life, my future, and some current emotions I've been going through. I brought myView post
Tonight we had a wonderful evening with our foster baby and his mom. For those of you who may know how the foster system works, a story like ours is quite unusual. In the past, we typically treasured the anonymity that comes from not knowing the biological parents and them not knowing who we were. There's ...
September 7, 2014 was my wedding. Well, at least in my mind it was. I had planned it all out and based on the way a relationship was going years ago, I thought it was a sure-fire thing. Almost a year later, I laugh at that thought. Dear God, what was I thinking? We would've been ...