Mother’s day – filled with hope, love, longing and loss.
My story I remember the days of love and insatiable longing. Longing for motherhood to be mine. To hold a tiny, wee […]
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Honest prayers
“… there’s healing in just being honest. This is where I am Lord. Please meet me here.” – Sharon Garlough Brown – […]
Grief is not a fast-food drive thru
I am baffled by society’s view of grief. We often view grief as something exceedingly negative, perhaps even wrong, especially if we […]
Sunday musings – Hope
In church today while we were singing, this line that caught my attention, buoyed me, carried me: “Hope for the hopeless.” Hope, it […]
Courage and empathy
Brene Brown in her book – I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame, […]
Valentine’s Day
As Beth Moore said today on Instagram; “I really do love love. What I don’t like is for people who don’t feel […]
Fiction Fridays – The earthquake
The earthquake hit Ischia, Italy at 8:57 pm. on a hot August day. It was 4.2 on the Richter scale, a moderate […]
I remember boarding school
I am six years old, ready to go into Grade One. We are standing on the tarmac. Me and my brothers. We […]
Booklovers
I come from a long line of avid, voracious readers. Both my Mom and Dad and all of my siblings (one sister, […]
Courage, dear heart. What we need for the New Year
Do you ever get that failing feeling as if it is all too much? How do I navigate, make my way through […]
Walking in the Dark
What happens when the lights go out? When it is so dark you cannot even see a pinprick of light. You cannot […]