Making the most out of every moment
Earlier this week I ran into someone I haven't seen in years. He and his wife knew me from when I was a teenager. While we weren't particularly close back then, we would always exchange casual hellos and general updates when we'd see each other. But earlier this week, that wasn't the case. He had stopped ...
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 ...