Five Minute Friday: Bare

I’m linking up for the very first time with 5-Minute Friday, hosted by the fabulous Lisa-Jo Baker.  It’s a challenge to write for 5 minutes and 5 minutes only, solely for the sake of writing.  Not for perfection.  Not for impact.  Not for anything but the...

Finding My Voice

I wrote yesterday about my lifelong love of writing, and how it has evolved to where I am today. It’s part of a dream I have…a wild and crazy dream that I believe with all my heart has been embedded into me by no one but my Creator. It is only a part of...

Signs of Life

I’m in a weird place right now. It’s a new place, and while I’m excited about things, I’m not altogether sure I like it here or know what to do. I feel a little like I’m running up the downward escalator, trying so hard to make things...

The Sixth Leaf

Soon after I graduated from college, I  (very unexpectedly) took a position as youth minister at a local church.   Some of the sweet girls in the youth group gave me a plant for my desk (apparently not knowing of the great likelihood that in doing so, they were...

Alone Together

If you’ve “known” me long, you know that depression and anxiety is an undeniable part of my journey.  It comes and goes, yes, in seasons that arrive as unexpectedly and as forcefully as a preschooler’s tantrum.  (Honestly, sometimes it feels...