It was his birthday! Smiling from head to toe, he picked up the ice cream cone dripping with sweetness. Licking his fingers he was determined not to let any of it remain unclaimed, It was his right, given to him by those who loved him! Everyone watched in amazement as [...]
Grabbing the box and tucking it under my arm I found my way to the checkout line. Smiling at the clerk I noticed her eyeing my jeans. “Those are nice jeans” she said Leaning in, she bravely attempted to finish her sentence with a secret whisper “Ma’am, the label is still on [...]
Anxiety is a close cousin to fear and I've struggled with it most my life! Anxiety, you know that feeling that starts in the pit of your stomach and stops in the middle of your throat, all because someone you trust, and love says some things about you that hold [...]
So much of my life has been spent in a box. You should look like this, sound like that, talk like this. I believe the box is the enemy's greatest weapon. If he can keep us locked in it, we will be his prisoners for life. Never doing anything great [...]
I had been sitting in that box I created, tightly bound with chains of guilt and shame, for what seemed like a lifetime. Fear, anxiety and doubt strapped me to the altar of self. My own thoughts were constantly running on repeat through my head. I was paralyzed. Unable to [...]
Looking back at the picture of the skinny women with a youngish haircut I realized what was happening. I was comparing myself to ME!! That’s what I had been doing for the last couple months! This year has been a challenging year for me to say the least. I [...]
Fear of losing the people I love! I guess that’s how you know you’re getting older when you attend more funerals than weddings! Just two years ago I held my mother's hand, keeping watch over her pulse as my four sisters and I stood around her bedside singing her into [...]
“What does it feel like to grow old, mama?” I asked. Mama’s never lie, or at least that’s what children believe. “You’re always the same on the inside” she replied “you just get old on the outside” Mama’s truth sinks into my heart as I walk this familiar path. Ordinary [...]
RUN, that was the voice that shouted out in my head the day I packed my suitcase and walked out of my twenty-year marriage. Don’t tell, don’t look back, just RUN!” Decades of lies, mask, hurts, piled up in the corners of my mind, tangled cobwebs, dust piles long neglected [...]
“They’ve clipped my wings” I chuckled as I read those words. A letter sent by my dear mama to a close friend. “They won’t let me drive on the freeway anymore” she continued “But I am managing and still enjoying life!” As daughters of an aging mother, it was our job [...]
