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  • Death, Focus and Finding Beauty
    14 years ago I laid in a hospital bed being pumped full of heavy duty antibiotics, an oxygen mask snuggly fitted to my face and a stout, demanding nurse seated at the head of my bed who routinely refitted the … Continue reading → […]
  • What About the Least of These?
    Maybe I have read too much over the last few days regarding all that is pouring forth on my 4×2 inch cell phone screen, or maybe you will think I have read too little but there is just so much … Continue reading → […]
  • Get Back Up
    I believe I first began to use food to “self-sooth” somewhere about age 5. I can remember shuttling away to my bedroom with a box of chocolate hostess cupcakes, certain I had just become a master thief complete with a … Continue reading → […]
  • Honor and Lung Cancer
    My Dearest Mom and Dad, I know you remember this moment, you dreamt of it long after you let all of your own dreams die. YOUR child, a COLLEGE graduate and the first one in our family. Your expressions say … Continue reading → […]
  • Conversation with a Sexual Predator
    I had just entered Costco with my husband and kids when I saw you. You are older, heavier, and balder then you were 23 years ago but your features are burned into my memory like a scared wound.  The revulsion … Continue reading → […]
  • A Birthday Message
    We met mid-October, just 4 months before this picture was taken on your 15th birthday. I can still picture it like it was yesterday, you standing there wearing that black boa wrapped around your neck while your sister sat at … Continue reading → […]
  • Tempted to Quit
    This is not a post about weight loss, though if you must know I can now brag about my ability to play give-and-take with the same 40 pounds. I can list that under my super powers along with my ability … Continue reading → […]
  • Suffering
    Delicately pink and offendingly small. Small enough to hold what once was two souls in their unfinished frames, and yet big enough to bury all my hope for the future. I stared at the coffin as the numbness ran through … Continue reading → […]
  • A Lesson
    “Mommy, whatcha doing?” “Spending time talking with God, sweetheart.” “Ok, Mommy, I am going to join you. Let me get my Bible.” … “Mommy, God is good, and I will write about Him. He made me beautiful and you beautiful … Continue reading → […]
  • God, Pain and Becoming a Drunk
    I looked down at the amber liquid that sat so peacefully in the glass as the light danced through it, and I desperately tried to will the muscle spasms that were tearing through my pelvis to end. I slowly sipped … Continue reading → […]

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