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Dear Dad,
Hey Dad? I know you don’t think you being here matters much. I know you think you don’t have much to offer in the way of raising kids, but I don’t think that way. I see you go to work every day, even at night sometimes, I see you tired and worn out on the couch. I know you’re...
To Mom:
Dear Mom,Take a second. Look around. Listen. I hear the kids fighting in the next room. I see the laundry over there in half, color- coded piles...endless. I see the dishes mounting and the growling tummies and the daily packed lunches. Balanced some days and not-so-much the...
New Year. New Perspective.
New Year, New…Perspective? When I think back to one year ago, I reminisce about a world that feels so foreign and beyond what our expectations of the last ten months could have brought us. We were naive to the complications of a world that would be shaken in tumult simply from...
Yet Hope Remains
There are days. There are days when it feels like the rain just won’t stop. Like the wind is blowing and the leaves are howling, like the sound of the cold droplets keep beating on my old pane glass windows. It’s cold. It’s damp. I don’t like the outside right now. There...
The Truth About Fall
Autumn. The miraculous time of year where woman thrive in their warm, blanket-like ponchos and trendy duck boots. Coffee flavors explode into all-things pumpkin and outdoor festivities seem prominent around every turn. Children prepare their costumes for October’s end and...
Create
The world around me seems to be crawling back to life. The once quiet neighborhood streets are bustling again with morning commuters. School busses line the roads as the children begin their fall education yet again. Even the air outside seems to blow in the wind with the...
#BeginAgain
I find it so hard to think outside the realm of this current year. It feels as though every decision, every set back every, single day rests on the unsettled atmosphere of what is happening in the streets, neighborhoods, cities…and the world around us. At any given...
Wilderness
Wilderness I try to talk with my friends, acquaintances and colleagues about the present year. “How are you?!” “Great!” “Fine” “So good to see you!” We go through the basic rhetoric as we each mumble with a hidden smiles and squinty eyes beneath our mandatory face masks. (Can...
Noise
Noise So much noise. I wake up in the morning to the sounds all around me. The children waking, the cars on the road, the news stations harping on what seems like “the end of the world” crashing down right outside my front door. Do you ever get tired of it? Do you ever just...
Impossible
Hey friend. I’m wondering. What uncertainties are you facing today? Is the world bearing down on your shoulders and stressing you out? Do you face an unknown fork in the road…unsure which weary road to travel next? Sometimes this life throws us curve balls. Decision must be...
Shut.Down.
In case you haven’t noticed, the entire world around us seems to be changing. Changing Rapidly. Changing in what our lives look like, changing in how we dress when we leave the house. Changing how we plan our days and how many stops we make and where we eat, and with whom we...
F.E.A.R.
FEAR. False Evidence Appearing Real. Except, when it is real. When what we’re most afraid of is what actually happens. When that diagnosis we were most unprepared for becomes reality. When Covid-19 shows up in your family and you’re quite sure this is going to be the end. When...