unexpectedly expecting

after 5 years of marriage where we’ve clung to the party line of “God is bigger than birth control and the best laid plans of mice and men,” we’re taking the training wheels off!

remember

10 years ago today I walked across a stage and accepted my bachelor’s degree. I remember it very poorly; my ex-fiancé had broken up with me only a few weeks before, and most of the time in between had been filled with coffee, packing, nightmares, canceling wedding plans, panic attacks, goodbyes, ice cream, returning weddingContinue reading “remember”

story

story maker,chain destroyer,defender,creator;story crafter,curse breaker,nurturer,provider;story weaver,squall disrupter,composer,director;you bring us intoyour sphere,draw us into your formation;you sing us intoexistence,craft us into the quick and the breath and the being from your very word of life;the cadence of your story holds us in the palm ofthe poet of all.

10 year not-iversary

we all want a fairy tale, don’t we? when I was 21, I thought I had it all figured out. I’d met a guy, fallen in love. I was on track to finish college. we were young and everything was fresh and wonderful – and when he showed up at my parents’ house with aContinue reading “10 year not-iversary”