Dear Self-Sabotaging Me, I have known you for far too long. You met me as a child, one dark night, when fear took hold. You are tricky. You have used people and circumstances as an excuse for your behavior. You have lied, twisted, and demoralized what I know I am capable of. You came as a […]
According to Universe time…my husband and I knew each other about three seconds before getting married and starting a family. We were in our early twenties, being children in every sense of the word. Survivalist searching for a fairy-tale love, some romantic fulfillment that promises, “Love does exist”. But while offering our lives to work, serving […]
Sitting one car away, waiting patently, for caffeine. Drive-through stops, like a river halted by the town-car in front of me.And I have been learning….Anything not moving, not growing, living, breathing….will eventually die. Breathe starts slowing. Counting. 1….2….3….4….5 minutes pass. The car before me keeps chatting with the Starbucks worker. Maybe there is a problem? Maybe something serious […]
I am just busting at the seems right now! Feeling overwhelmed by the goodness and GRACE that has made it’s way to me…so undeserving. I have to tell you…I am in love. So in love. I fell in love even before we ever met. No…not internet dating. Not through Facebook, e-mail, or some other form of […]
The Northwest is known for rain. Anyone who lives here, knows it’s no myth that it rains, non-stop, constantly, about ten months of the year. In winter, people hide indoors. Seasonal Effective Disorder is a condition plaguing our little corner of the nation. Isolation. Sadness. Depression. Hibernation. Many here have had it. I have had it. […]
We snuggle in a booth. After twenty years. More in love than ever. Rain slays sheets of regret. Washing away tomorrow. One of those days. All is just right. The light of of new beginnings. Shines bright in hearts fully wanting. And I hear them cheer. Down center. From the bar, a little too near. Tipsy […]