Becoming You
New Year New You! Between you and me (and everyone else reading this) I hate that famous mantra. It might be a new year, but new me? It’s not like I’m going to wake up tomorrow and be traded with someone else’s body like some overdone Hollywood, comedy film. Why do we wait...
A Weary World
It’s that time of year again. The hustle and bustle of shoppers and retail workers fill the streets and walkways. The sweet aromas of candles and cookies flood the air. There seems to be an overwhelming sense of something important, necessary, that is to come. Christmas...
Mums the Word
Fall. Up in the beautiful Northeast it’s a season of change, of beauty and wonder. “The old goes away and the new comes.”……Eventually. Honestly, Autumn has never been a favorite season of mine. I could never understand why people relish in the idea of the warm summer...
The Flowers Fade
I hate to admit it out loud, or even on a computer screen, but the summer is dwindling. It’s coming to a halting end as school supplies flood store shelves and pictures of “first days” begin to overtake my social media streams. How can this be? It seems like the last day of...
Make the Most of the Summer
Hey Moms and Dads! Hey Grandmas and Papas! Hello babysitters and keepers-of-kids during the long, summer days! If you’re anything like us, this summer is in full-swing. The kids are thrilled, excited, wearing-me out and obviously not going back to school anytime soon. ...
Worth Fighting For
It’s been a while since I’ve sat down to write some of these blogs to my friends (hopefully) reading these words on the other side of a screen. I must admit how awkward I feel and nearly unequipped at this task. It was not so long ago I felt most at home behind my keyboard for...
Kindred Hearts
Sometimes the struggle to find the right words seems impossible. The moments when you aren’t sure what to say so it seems easier to simply stay quiet. To empathize with others in their pain, means to carry their burden and their heartache as if it were your own. To honor their...
Sweet Summertime
The birds wake the world with sweet songs and the insects seem to sing in rhythm to the chorus of the trees waving in the breeze. I wonder often how they seem to flawlessly make such beautiful noise together when they all seem vastly different. The bugs and the birds and the...
Light in the Darkness
In the Darkness. There is Light. Where do you go when the darkness is closing in? What is your medication, your source of strength when the walls are caving in on you? What moments in life have brought you to your knees in anguish and fear and dread? The moments that hurt...
Waiting.
Waiting. What is this season of waiting and what exactly is the (unseen) purpose? Often in seasons of waiting I find myself in angst. Unsure of how to calmly and peacefully sit in what feels like an endless cycle of wondering: what’s next, where to go from here, what exactly is...
Know Your Options
To the girl who didn’t mean to get pregnant. To the woman who didn’t plan to carry a baby she never wanted to have. To the one ashamed of the positive test or the two pink lines terrified of what this changes, forever…..This one is for you. I see you as I cross the...
Spring Forward
Spring is just around the corner. And by corner, I’m quite sure that means at least two more cataclysmic snow storms, a few more weeks of below thirty-degrees and, at best, another month of winter boots and coats. {Just around the corner though!} What else is...