by Cathy Terranova | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Trauma is a tricky thing. PTSD is a tricky thing. Our traumas are like shrill echoes down a long hallway. PTSD makes you believe they are not echoes, but that the eerie, disturbing things that happened are happening again. We can get caught up in waiting for the...
by Cathy Terranova | Oct 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Facebook now putting a widget (is that right?) for your old forgotten Facebook notes, I found this and I thought it was worth a share. So, thanks, me-from-four-years-ago:Coldplay may have written this song, but it is the message coming from God’s mouth...
by Cathy Terranova | Oct 11, 2013 | Boundaries, Uncategorized
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...
by Cathy Terranova | Oct 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Cathy Terranova | Sep 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...