To My Younger Self
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
Monday Challenge
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 ...
Filtering Reality
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
One Word Changed Lives
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 ...
Time is of the Essence
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 ...
When You Breathe Again
We all have a day that will live on in infamy. We remember every word that was said, the heartbreak and tears that followed, and the dreaded thought that we'd never be able to move on. Days, weeks, months go by. And then, it happens.View post