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Finis
I had no business looking at houses back in 2010. We had just moved into a little, rental home tucked in between a blackberry alley and the bustling highway. There were several months left on our...
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Proof of (a) Life: The Photography Conundrum
This was written in 2014. I spent a couple days last week, beginning to sort through and organize some hard-copy photos I have printed. It is an enormous project… and life won’t pause to wait for me to...
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Writing to Know How I Think
Some things need to be said. And they will be said. But the time is not yet. I will not write what is happening, but just pluck through snippets of how I feel. Doing this assists me in moving through...
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The Hidden Saint
* * * I’ve begun the daunting process of trying to organize my e-life. Part of this is taking on my formidable Google Drive account and deleting irrelevant files and organizing others into...
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Portrait of an HSP
I don’t have more mirror neurons than most of you. Mine are just more active. As screen monitors race for higher and higher definitions of the perfect picture, my brain already has them beat with an...
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In Memoriam…
The story of this death began when I was 17 years old. I was smart and driven, but without any other notable talents that would’ve distinguished me from any other smart, driven teenager searching for...
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On Annulments
It’s been a few weeks now since the Church has found my marriage to be invalid. My initial reaction was jumbled confluence of emotions. Some friends immediately said things like “Congratulations!”...
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Getting Real about “Doing the Work.”
Seems like we’ve been hearing a lot lately about “doing the work.” This is meant to invoke personal growth and positive change and maybe even healing from whatever traumas you’ve escaped or dragon...
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2020 in Books
So I was finishing grad school. And taking national exams. Hiring and firing lawyers. Representing myself in court (again). White knuckling a 26′ moving truck down the highway by myself in a household...
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The Last of Human Freedoms: Part Three
(Part 1) (Part 2) This is the part of my story I don’t want to tell. This is not the time. I have silently borne the weight of a bittersweet pain for a very long time. And it is too soon to give it...
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The Last of Human Freedoms: Part Two
The Legal Years Divine Lover and Heavenly King, have mercy on me, my children, and their father… please don’t let this be weaponized into bitterness and retaliation, but rather make it a piercing,...
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The Last of Human Freedoms: Part One
I have thought and prayed carefully for four years on how or if I would ever share my marital fallout. There have been bits here and there, pennies of thoughts and pounds of discretion as I grapple...
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Unanswered Questions
Further adventures in a tale told out of order… I cross-examined the father of my children in the court-room last week. I wonder how many women have ever had to do that. There were lots of objections...
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Writing to Know How I Think
Some things need to be said. And they will be said. But the time is not yet. I will not write what is happening, but just pluck through snippets of how I feel. Doing this assists me in moving through...
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A Father’s Love
Last night I saw my father on a bicycle. The sunset was fading and he was alone in the park ahead of me. Recollecting that he’s been dead for almost three years, I didn’t call after him. And he didn’t...
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This is just a note to folks who wonder why my account is inactive on Facebook and can no longer be found on Instagram right now. Despite privatizing all my accounts and blocking certain users and...
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Hope Springs Eternal
Looking out my kitchen window this morning made me drop the dish I was washing and gasp. My raspberry plant had suddenly grown— or I suppose it was just being seen for the first time in months— and the...
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Chapter 11
This is many, many pages into my story. Someday perhaps, all will be laid clear. But today: Chapter 11 is what my heart is telling me to write. I finished my Masters degree in Clinical Mental Health...
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The Threshold of Joy
One of my favorite take-aways from the many months I spent in the throes of real trauma was experiencing a forceful reorientation of my senses. When it’s pitch black outside and you’re scratching at...
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On Writing and Bleeding
So many writers seem to publish articles when they have a tidy moral lesson to share. Or perhaps they have a new spiritual insight born from the foibles of everyday living. Then there are those who...
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