Life lately has been heavy. Actually it’s been quite the roller coaster. It’s funny how life can sometimes feel like it happens all at once. You can walk through the valley and reach the mountaintop in the same week…sometimes in the same day. Life is crazy like that. Life is heavy when you let people…
Read moreA Letter from an Anxious Friend
Dear Friend, As you probably very well know, I bail on plans at the last minute, make excuses to stay in bed, attempt to plan everything down to the last second and experience sudden and overwhelming emotions. I always want to know everything about everything, I mumble and sometimes stutter when I speak and sometimes…
Read moreForever Day-Year One
One Year Later . 365 days. We’ve been together for much longer, but we’ve been a family for one whole trip around the sun. Time has both flown and dragged on and on. The past year has brought many changes inside our home and in the world. It’s been a year now that we’ve all…
Read moreThe Day My Life Changed in a Leper Colony
When I was 18, I spent the summer in Dehli, India with a group of 17 strangers. It was amazing, brutal, tough,and beautiful in so many ways. That summer was by far one of the hardest things I have ever gone through physically, mentally, and emotionally. Those 17 strangers became family. Together we lived life…
Read moreOne Day at a Time
I try not to get emotional. I try not to get my hopes up. But really, I’m just human. Each time I get an email from his case worker or his lawyer, I get a boost of energy. Maybe this is the information we needed. Maybe this email contains the next piece of the puzzle….
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