Eleven Letters

I stared at the blinking curser. I reread the text message. I put my iPhone down. I had to pray because I couldn’t handle the hurt. I picked up my phone and wrote eleven letters. I never knew eleven letters could be so hard to write. Before I was able to write those...

Lessons From Migraines

I was at work when the headache I had kept intensifying. I thought I would be okay to hold off a little bit longer on taking something for it. I was wrong. By the time I took pain relief, I could hardly keep my eyes open. Everything sounded 100x louder than normal. I...

Let’s Hear It For The Boys

I’ve been thinking a lot about the different guys I’ve talked to over the years… I think because recently, I experienced another let down. This is by no means a blog to bash men. Thanks to the good men in my family and the good men who’ve I’ve met along the way,...

Where’s Donavan?

I got to work and was ready to get going. I was working a double so I needed to be on my A-game. I had a good closing crew so I wasn’t worried. Donavan had become my favorite closing guy. He was much older than me and everyone else who worked there. He worked really...

Life Sucks Sometimes

It’s a privilege to have my sweet little sister, Jessica, be a guest writer this week! I have seen her grow leaps and bounds through one loss after the other. She really has been like an perfume bottle that has been shattered and leaves it’s unmistakable...

What Grief Has Felt Like…

If you know me, I am not a verbal processor (I process through writing), and if I can not figure things out in my own head and get it on paper, I feel silenced. But I’ve been trying to force myself to write and to take the next step. There have been more months than...