Thanks-Getting

We like to take this time of year here in the good ‘ol U S of A to give Thanks. For friends, family, things, whatever. But what I’ve realized I am super guilty of is spending the rest of the year preoccupied with thanks-getting. Waiting for people to say,...

My Sinking Relation-Ship

Intimacy has always been a difficult thing for me. I used to tell my parents, “I don’t have any friends”. What I meant was, “I don’t have any intimate relationships”.”Opening up” was never the problem. Until recently,...

Sorry Not Sorry

    My husband likes to refer to me as his, “Personal Google”. I wrote a paper in eleventh grade that my English teacher said she would have published if she was still editing for journals. I am very, very, rational. I sometimes laugh...

Waiting Sucks, You’re Not Doing It Wrong

The Church is good. GOD knows they try. But some things that echo from well-intentioned pulpits and mouths fluent in “Christian-ese” can warp some pretty heavy things into some nasty half-truths. Let me just tell you now: WAITING SUCKS. Anticipation of...

Cripple Without Crutches

Often, there are days that I make it not only out of bed, but out of the house. Today is one. My husband and I are opening a bookstore and today I did a lot of things to make that goal a continued reality. This is exciting. I opened a door for a lady at Hobby Lobby...