Since I was almost as young as I can remember, I took on the role of being the caretaker in my home. Growing up in a drug induced and abusive environment, there was always this inherent need to make sure my mom and my siblings were safe. Even to my own detriment and even if …
I have been delving in and out of the dating world for the past almost 3 years. What a roller coaster, I tell ya! I am learning SO much and I’m mostly thankful for the experiences. And then some days I down right hate it. All of it. The roller coaster sucks. I don’t even …
Ok, I am a Single Mom. But not by the terms that you probably just read that. I just Googled “what is a single mom?” and I can’t even call myself that anymore because the common themes of those definitions don’t fit for me. You see, I live with my former husband, his new wife …
I’m coming out of a bit of a funk over the last week or so and took a few days off from my writing to let myself get through it. Over the last few years I have learned the importance of taking some down time when you need it. I used to push myself beyond …
This weekend I had a little surprise visitor that I haven’t had in quite some time… We shall call him Loneliness! After my break up a couple of years ago, I made the decision to sit with my loneliness and make it my friend. Even though it was the most empty, unpleasant, sad and hopeless …
Sometimes we take risks with our eyes wide open… In life… In love… Even when we know it will end in tears. Because we know that it will be worth it… Worth whatever we can imagine will be the cost. Worth the pain we know we will have to endure in the end. Worth showing …
Sometimes the shortest conversations can be the sweetest… I shared with some friends tonight how I’m so thankful for the handful of people that are in my life who knew my dad. I love that we get to share stories and I get to hear how he touched people’s lives. Sometimes I even get to …
Being single after roughly 20 years of being in a marriage/relationship, and really for the first time in my adult life has been a crazy learning experience and wild adventure. I have learned and am learning so freaking much about myself and what I want that I’m finally in a place where I feel like …
There is a storm raging inside of me. It has always been there. Only now I embrace it. All in. I am a strong woman. Fierce. Loyal. Bold. Powerful. Unshakeable. I know my commitments, my values, my stance. I am a woman of integrity. Honest and true. I am a woman who makes mistakes. I …
Today would have been my 19th wedding anniversary. I hesitated on writing about it, but it’s the only brilliant and true thing that is there for me to write this evening, so I will share… Brilliantly… I will preface this post with the fact that my ex husband & I have worked extremely hard to …