The sun peeked bright above the horizon of a sleepy city, and I was supposed to be writing. But when the newsfeed danced across my screen, I couldn’t help but click. Before I knew it, I was submerged, [Read more...]
And now the funerals begin. I can’t believe ten kids are dead. Again. Mowed down by a troubled peer. Again. And to think I was all set to blog about the royal wedding… maybe later for [Read more...]
For your Mother’s Day enjoyment, here are my favorite mom facts and quotes modernized with a hashtag: 1. #Detectivework: Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then it is just suspicious. 2. [Read more...]
I came around the corner and Bam! There it sat in all it’s bulging glory—a ginormous two story eyeball loitering with nonchalance in the grassy space. Talk about unnerving. The icy blue stare seemed [Read more...]
The pounds snuck up in a cruel game of mid-life Truth or Dare. Those sneaky ones somehow crept into my middle section and dared me to get rid of them. The kind of pounds that pop buttons, and squeeze [Read more...]
We lived bold as the young and invincible do. Thinking nothing of driving home to Texas late at night, we snaked dark and lonely as the scant houses blurred past. Winding through the ebony [Read more...]
I hadn't done something so dumb since I was a teenager. Cars whizzed by me at seventy miles an hour.The wind force of the trucks rocked my stationary SUV like a Volkswagen in a cyclone. The [Read more...]
Our backyard spilled huge from the tiny brick house. Or so it seemed through the eyes of four year old me. These box-like structures in this modest East Texas neighborhood blended one after the other [Read more...]
It reminded me of my first nervous day of seventh grade, a new school, seas of strangers congregated in pods, then swarmed with haste less the bell catch them late. Shy and unsure, I kept to myself, [Read more...]
What is wrong with us? Where is the goodness And the patient grace And the love of our fellowman? Bullies degrade Racists divide Murderers in the name of vengeance, Slaughterers for a God I [Read more...]