I’ve just now finished watching a movie I’ve come to put on my Christmas list each year. It’s a family during the holidays, all grown children come home to celebrate and the dynamics of bringing new people to the mix and how that plays itself out; all misunderstandings and the brittle awkwardness of trying to …
The end. Of the first school semester of my girls’ career and I look at her and marvel. She walks tall and graceful through the halls. She has gathered, for herself, a group of friends that want to be her friend as much as she wants to be theirs. It is her community and I …
It’ll be different this year for Naomi and I. Very different. No daughters, save my girlie, will be here. My Montana boy has already made the trek his budget will allow for this holiday time. My two boys, one so close to leaving for the next year I can feel him starting to slip away …
My granddaughter is letting everyone know she’s going to arrive soon. It could be tonight. It might be tomorrow. So we wait. And I wait far away, several states away. I have the heart, just not the money to go. And I was fine with that. I’ve learned, the years of being divorced and on …
Many times I hear this. “You’re so brave and honest to say what you do. It changes my walk and my perspective. It makes me feel brave.” It’s true I speak plain. I am an open book, most of the time. I can pull in fearful when someone intimidates me and self edit out of …