And then there is this knowing that affairs, even the love kind, are not blameless. They foil with the future the way God quickens  our

When all is said and done I would remember the snow outside the doctor’s office.  The unknowingness in my children’s lives.  The struggle to be

Something magical happens when you stop caring about what others think of you.  You start to taste a level of freedom that questions all of

She resides inside new love.  She makes her home within a new memory.  She keeps you up at night after a first date.  And she

It has taken me over 13 years to feel a longer lasting sense of happiness.  You might want to yell out but Christina, that’s too

I wish I could play music.  Sing like an Opera singer.  Write as if I have lived many lives.  I wish doors opened for me.

Life is prickly.  That is where all the stories we tell ourselves come from.  The prickly things.  We tell ourselves so many things after we

After a loss, you find yourself standing in front of a crossroad. You can’t decide whether to go left or right.  It feels like your

The most heartbreaking moments of our lives happen when nobody is watching.  Nobody sees us, then.  These moments are parts of the larger heartbreak.  The

Once upon a time, a day came that took everything from you.  And you crumbled at the nothingness.  You stepped inside of it looking to

I haven’t written much about dating after loss.  Not because I don’t have a lot to say, but because my conversation with you has always