Avoidant Doesn’t Equal Heartless
I’ve been spending a bit of my time with the book “Attached” by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller. This book is giving me all kinds of feelings, and I want to talk about my experiences. The book identifies three types of attachment: anxious, avoidant, and secure. There’s a fun (heavy on the sarcasm) little quiz…
What I’m Reading
This week, I’m spending some quality time with a few nonfiction books from my TBR that have been begging for my attention. I’m not doing immersive readings of these books, but instead sifting through the highlights and relevant concepts to apply to my own experiences with life. 1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People…
Happy Birthday To Me!
44 is a terrifying age. And yet, something about turning 44 is sitting deeply in my soul. It’s whispering through me that all of this has been building up to something: a suffocating desire to burst out of the mold of my prison and explode into who I am meant to be. The last year…
Justice Is Served
Last Friday, my daughters and I sat with some of our closest friends and family to witness the sentencing of Cason John Lee, who was convicted in March 2026 of 7 felony counts of sexual crimes against three children. I wrote about the trial in a separate post, titled The Rape of Innocence. If you…
Beauty in the In Between
There is a time between the ending of one chapter and the beginning of the next. How much time passes depends on the story. In some stories, mere seconds. But in others, the time spent “in between” can be months or years, small eternities between the most important details. But that time is not unimportant.…
The Rape of Innocence
Trigger Warning: Read at your own risk. I’m gonna talk about sexual abuse. I’m gonna talk about physical violence. Do not read this if it will hurt you. Two weeks ago, I appeared in a courtroom in Rock County, Wisconsin. There, I took the witness stand, pledged an oath to tell the truth, and spoke…
Who Will Speak When NOBODY is Left?
Who will speak for the broken the oppressed the innocent? Who decides what lives are important? If you believe in a higher power, a god, a goddess, a creator, Then you know that a day of reckoning is coming swiftly. All will be judged whether you believe or not To choose a side or not…
The Cost of Hate and Distraction
The world can feel so dark sometimes that it’s impossible to know if there is any good left and we can get so lost in the noise that constant distraction makes. Too preoccupied with things to buy and things to do and people to see and places to go and pictures to take and videos…
Twin Flame
You said you were my soul mate, But that simply wasn’t true. I couldn’t see what we were while we were in it, Blinded by how much I wanted you. But this time, when you went away, I started to pay attention. I noticed the things you didn’t think I would catch, The backhanded compliments…
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
If you’re waiting for your “Come to Jesus” moment, it’s here. I haven’t been “religious” since I was a kid. Raised Southern Missionary Baptist in a little church in the backwoods of Missouri. Our preachers were a circulating cast from other churches, and every week was a two-hour sermon on the evils of the world.…
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