This may shock you. I am very partial to healing hurts through attaching comfort to emotional pain. One very effective way of doing this is through “shared experiences.” You take people who have had similar events happen in their lives and get them...
I have no tattoos. The other day I was having a conversation with a dear friend. She is one of those people who tells it wonderfully as it is (sometimes that is code speak for “rude”” or inconsiderate) not so in this case. She just lays it out...
The tornado touched down on the suburban Pittsburgh neighborhood, the high school and houses were damaged. “As long as the kids are ok…” one woman said on the news. Ok, finish that sentence mam. What if the kids are not ok? What if everyone did...
So, you’re 160 feet below the surface of the earth with your spouse and two kids and there is only one way in and one way out. You are in a cave. Water is dripping and there are actually pools of it around you. What do you feel? Me? Nothing. Totally fine. ...
So often we go through life and have this feeling of helplessness. As I look on our shelf right now I see the picture posted above. How dark, how cold. Just Rachel and Trey walking up a snowy hill. At the top she would simply let him go. It was not the first...
Too many things going on in my head and life to pick one so here goes. 1. Today was Joe and Bella’s last day of school. 2. Trey already had his. 3. That doesn’t make us as sad as you might think. 4. Next year we will not have any kids in the elementary...
