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  • How To Love A Hippie

    To love a hippie is to take a walk into a soul’s garden and stop to smell the flowers. It’s early morning sunshine stretching across a bed tangled with “I love you’s” and the soft…

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  • Bittersweet Christmas

    Back in October I was able to find a roof through a friend of a friend. We are now staying in the home of a guy named Chris. He had a spare bedroom, so the…

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  • Alone

    I have days when I’m deeply depressed, and other days when life simply goes on. I haven’t had any truly happy days yet. I’m trying to be patient with myself. I tell myself that once…

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  • Profoundly Lost

    When Jason died, everything lost its balance. The life we had built—so carefully, so lovingly—collapsed overnight, and I was left standing in the wreckage with three children and no real path forward. I was heartbroken,…

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  • How Am I Doing?

    “How are you doing?” A simple honest question. And I’m sure, by now, people expect me to say I’m doing okay. Or that I’m good. Or that I’m moving on with my life. But you…

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