Weekend Wanderings–Birthday Celebration

Yesterday was a sweet day of celebrating with my family. What were we celebrating? Me! It’s that time of year where I turn another year older and because Matt won’t be here for my actual birthday we celebrated early. I was pretty sad about turning 35, gulp, (I remember my mom turning 35 and thinking … Read more

Are You Comfortable with Emotion? Am I?

A few weeks ago it was a down right crappy week. I felt overwhelmed with sadness at times, hopeless that things could or would change, a serious heart pain really. Then that sadness moved to intense anger. The emotions were brought on by real, hard, ongoing events. I have no control over them and as … Read more

Faith & Culture Writers Conference

I’m not usually one to sign up for a conference by myself. I don’t enjoy large crowds with lots of unknown people and I don’t consider myself to be a “real” writer and it was called the Faith & Culture Writers Conference after all. I assumed this was a conference for people who write really … Read more