I am a teacher. I have the best job in the whole wide world. (With the exception of being a Mother of course.) Parent teacher conference days send a chill up my spine every time. I sit in the middle of the big cold gym in the middle of a month way too far away … Continue reading How to Deal With Yourself When You Feel Like a Failure
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How Not to Live and Empty Life
When I was a young teen-preteen-tween... whatever you call that extremely volatile period in a persons life, I loved to journal, only this wasn't an ordinary journal. No hearts around boys names, memories and dreams. It was my "real life" journal. I would sit down at the end of the day and re-write the day … Continue reading How Not to Live and Empty Life
Little One, Our Scars Will Make Us Brave
I have three of them. on long jagged one splitting the place where I gained nourishment as a fetus-child and two symmetrically placed just inside the jut of my hip bone. Compared to the scars of others, mine are small and insignificant, but to me they are a glaring imperfection. A representation of history. "Getting … Continue reading Little One, Our Scars Will Make Us Brave
An Offering
As a musician, music has an intensely visceral way of getting into my heart. It is able to get in the darkest places and pull out things I wasn’t even aware of. A song we are working on in our church choir revealed to me a surprising and shameful amount of doubt a quiet … Continue reading An Offering
