Words & Insights From the Heart
Life is hard. We need each other. This weekend I was reminded why. My Weekend I pulled on my coat and braced myself against the Friday early morning cold. My true southern blood, after a little more than 17 years, has yet to acclimate. “It’s a short walk,” I say to myself, trying to validate
If you have survived to at least teendom, you can likely name some sort of trauma you have experienced. According to a January 2022 article by the US Department of Health & Human Services, “more than 2/3 of children reported at least one traumatic event by the age of 16”. I imagine the results of
How do we just go about life, especially after being reminded in a very up close and personal way how fragile and fleeting life can be? That is the question that has been rolling around in my head after my community was rocked by tragedy last week. It seems to me, we are always caught
Human relationships are tricky. Relationships are made especially complicated by very polarizing personal choices and tightly held beliefs. As much as I enjoy the freedoms we have, I have been so disappointed with the poor behavior I have seen displayed from every side of what I would call the “hot mess” of a world in
I woke up somehow fully aware that I was upside down. It was cold and I was confused. Several minutes passed before I could find a square inch of truth I could use to figure out where I was and how to right myself. Sounds pretty harrowing, right? I assure you it was. It is