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What We Leave Our Children
The women in my family could make a meal from almost nothing. A bone. An onion. Whatever the men had left. They could also make a childhood disappear beneath a clean tablecloth. I learned from them. I washed the good plates. I carried the terrible things carefully so nobody would hear them touch. When I…
Thwart Anxiety & Connect
I participated in a mental health presentation the other day. The speaker spoke a lot about connection and how it helps thwart anxiety. One of the antidotes was to listen to an audiobook. If you’ve come through trauma, trust me, I lead you through a “captivating emotional journey!” Let me be with you through my…
WHERE SORROW BECOMES PRAYER
There are things I have tried to explain to God when all I really needed to do was weep. I came with carefully chosen words. I wanted to be grateful, faithful, someone who could find the lesson and keep moving. But beneath those prayers was another one, unfinished and frightened: Lord, this hurt me. And…
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