On The Mend
Christina’s 12 year old weekly blog
Find the Code
Emotional pain is not all the same. Not measured in a simple scale of easy, hard, very hard. It has many directions. It moves across
Change Does Not Feel Like Breaking Bread
Change does not feel like breaking bread. Nope. It does not feel like chopping wood either. It is not like swimming. Or running. Or even
Together Forever
Oh life, you are so complex. You give, you take. We ask. You respond. We live. We die. We lose. We cry. We mourn. We re
You have always been the storm
My heart was beating almost as if it was everywhere. Not just inside my chest. But inside the two hundred and fifty humans that were
I Stopped Internally Combusting
I stopped it. It was only for a few seconds. A few seconds not being who I had been. The stop, crushed me. The interruption
Endings
It was not like any other day. Something was in the air. A heaviness, with no name. A knowing. A goodbye. An Ending. A full stop. And
Don’t Stand At The Door
I search and search and search. Behind every word I say. After every new decision. I seek to find myself, the self that lives underneath
There is Someone Living in my Attic
Whenever I want to give up, I think of the bold words of Ralph Waldo Emerson “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
Miracles are real
I think magic is real. More real than your table. The chair. Your coffee too. Miracles are real too. Science proves it. Religion talks
No More Lies After Loss
‘The Life we live, is the lesson we teach’ my friend Jim Kwik mentioned in one of his writings. I read it just before
There is no candy hanging on your alarm clock.
I am approaching the next year with sadness. But not the type of sadness that can be labeled. Not the type of sadness that
Give This Letter to the People Who Invite You Over During the Holidays
What do you say to someone who lost the love of their life and they have to go through the Holiday season on their