This will be difficult. This will be my story. My very particular, personal messy story. I shake in my boots….the rubbery kind I wore when I was a kid that you pull over your “real” shoes? Because that’s what it feels like to talk out loud and brave; like my nine year old self standing …
In China, when you find yourself pregnant, afoul of the one child law, you face severe repercussions for your family, potential loss of job, health care and access to resources. If you give your child up for adoption, you may be arrested. Many women are pressed into making desperate choices; leaving their newborns in an …
There are 81 days left in this year and I’ve begun to look back over the calendar in my mind….like sifting through a pile of old photographs….I pick one up and smile the wistful kind of smile that calls the day back, another makes me laugh out loud. There’s one that looks mysterious to me, …
In the emergency room, one of the first things they ask you is to rate your pain, from 1 to 10. The problem with that can be that my 10 is your 1 or…vice versa, and it’s difficult to ever really know if we’re communicating our pain level. I’ve learned something recently……pain can be a …
I am a deer. Soft and gentle; but alert, focused, highly sensitive to every snap of a twig and nuance of change in my surroundings. I have been gifted with discernment and it has served me well. I can take the “temperature” in any situation I find myself in. I can be tranquil; playful in …