Personality Disorder
During my brief stint in college, I was asked to describe myself in 30 seconds. I believe what I wrote looked something like this: I am a strongly opinionated people-pleaser. I know what I believe...
View Article8 Reasons I Will Quit Blogging
In case I’ve never told you, I really kinda like you. You make me laugh, you’ve made me cry, you’ve given me fantastic ideas and I’ve watched you rally ’round a hurting sister on more than one...
View ArticleThey Call Me Extreme: Purity
Modern day society is waging war on the eyes and minds of not only adults, but on the children we’re trying to raise. The assailant is everywhere disguised in various forms. His weapons are deadly...
View ArticleDear Survivor of Sexual Abuse
Yes, I’m talking to you. I know the easier thing is not to talk about it but you and I both know that isn’t the best thing. You’ve stuffed it down for so long, trying to pretend it no longer touches...
View ArticleAnd That’s Why I Hold My Husband’s Hand
Left to myself, one might never be able to tell the guy who walks beside me is my husband. Or at the very least they might struggle to know I actually like him. But I do. I really, really do. It...
View ArticleRaising Boys Who Respect Girls…and Girls Who Respect Who They Were Made to Be
It’s a tired subject really. So tired, in fact, that we hear it without really listening. It’s an endless volley of disconnect and dissension. And while it seems harmless to many, it’s the very...
View ArticleAnd That’s Why We Don’t Have a Household Schedule
I’ve got a five-part And That’s Why series planned though this is only segment two and I honestly have no idea when the other three will come to life. I’d make a horrible for-real writer because I...
View Articlethings I wish I knew before I married
Nothing like flying blind, you know? Bumping along the road toward marital bliss seems so, well, blissful. Until it isn’t because it won’t be. Marriage is hard sometimes, plain and simple. And...
View ArticleRaising Daughters Who Are Worthy of a Good Man
I’m raising five boys. Three of them are already journeying through the teen years, but that part doesn’t scare me. You know what does, though? The fact that we’re inching ever nearer to the day...
View Articleeven when our truth is dirty
You guys, I haven’t been telling you the truth. At least not my truth. And honestly, I don’t want to. But then I got to thinking and realized that is the problem with this wide world of people. We...
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