Purple was her favorite color. If there was something with a purple option, she bought it. Her air fryer was purple. She wrote with a purple pen – at her office, the pen in her purse, the one in the magnetic holder on the fridge with a notepad. Purple was her color. The first time […]
Giving Up Food For Lent
I love Lent as much as I hate it. It’s depressing and sad with no choruses of Alleluia. It’s painful for all the giving up and fasting and abstinence we do (abstinence from meat for you non-Catholics. We don’t go all season without sex. Even Catholics aren’t that crazy). But it’s a beautiful time of […]
When You Can’t Call Heaven
I need to talk to you. I have something going on in my life that only you will understand and your counsel means the most to me. There’s something big going on in my world and I want to run to you and spill my guts. But I can’t talk to you. You’re dead. “Gone.” […]
People – The only thing worse than poop.
There are four bathrooms in my office building. Two are single occupant, unisex rooms and the other two are gendered multiple stall rooms. Nine times out of ten the single-occupant bathrooms smell like poop because (most) people in the building use the private rooms for their number twos. Despite that losing gamble, I prefer the […]
When the rain doesn’t come
I was dry. The vigor and excitement and intimacy I had felt about God was waning. Nothing was wrong. Nothing had happened. I just felt distant. I still loved God and my faith, but the intimacy I once felt was missing. For a time I felt so close to God He felt like one of […]
A Trust Fall
How can I not trust God with my simple earthly needs when Jesus trusted Him with it all?
Making the old lady proud
I’m turning *cough*ty years old. A milestone birthday. It bothers me less than most people assume. 26 bothered me. Realizing I was closer to 30 than 21 freaked me out. Not because of the number, but because I thought I’d be further along in my life at 26 than I actually was. No career, no […]
The War With Time
We were starting to panic. Short with the kids and snipping at each other we were running red lights and ignoring the speed limit. We were late. Running between back-to-back-to-back events that Monday evening after putting in full days at work and school, we were feeling the crunch. Each event ran later than planned, putting […]
Growing Pains
I stared at the chubby cheeks on the screen in front of me. So much of the image struck me with the differences. The chubs. The double chin. The hat with characters from a cartoon he hasn’t watched in years. The teeny tiny baby teeth with spaces between them. That smile now is filled with […]
Gaining Vision
I couldn’t stop stabbing myself in the eye. No matter what I did, I couldn’t stop stabbing myself in the eyes. I bought a mirror to use in my office. I propped it up on a jar on my desk. But every time, I stabbed my eye. I twisted and contorted my arm and hand […]