Finding out someone shares a birthday with you feels like stars aligning,hearts criss-crossing, and lives twisting and tangling together. If they share your actual year it’s even more special because you grew up sharing moments and memories andhistories and horoscopes, too. Libra to Libra, Pis...
I had to toughen up and support my mother, plan a funeral with my brother and find out how mum could access some money to live on as dad handled all the finances. To make matters worse mum was an emotional
‘I look to You—my help and my strength—and lay before you all my struggles . . .’ Out through my pen and onto the page the words flowed, psalm-like—an inky, itemised confession of every battle and every negative emotion that weighed so heavily on my heart. Three months earlier, ...
Sometimes I still need a moment where I play out lighting fire to the orchard and burning the whole thing down. As I had conversations around my last entry I began to realize that in looking for validation of my own unique experience of grief I may have inadvertently invalidated yours. This...
I know it must have been a surprise to learn you have a secret half-sibling and I realise you must have many questions that will go unanswered because our parent is not here to answer them. “Why didn’t I know?” “Why didn’t they tell me? ” “Why didn’t someone tell me?”...
Best of all, the main story arc is already written- all you have to do is provide the details. Anyone out there brave enough to take up the gauntlet? 15 responses so far What happened to Tancred’s other sons? Mar 06 2013 If the Normans of the 11th century are to be believed,...
And how true is that. HOW TRUE is that. For me - it's like a sentence out of my biography. A nail in my coffin. Should I have explored the other option more, should I have consulted my parents, should I have gone for it, should i have done this or should i have done that. ...
But the night arrived and I had shared with a few trusted comrades just how out of my mind excited I was. I put on my red lipstick, chugged a Coors Light in my kitchen, and drove myself downtown. I gave myself a little bit of time so that I could have a drink at the bar at...
(from multiple wives). The older sons were jealous of the younger, favored one, Joseph. They conspired to throw him into a pit and kill him but in the end chose to sell him into slavery in Egypt instead. There he makes lemonade out of those nasty lemons, but you’ll have to read ...
even if I was given the choice. God’s presence. I have never felt the presence of God in my life like I did that day. He was there with me, standing in the room next to Josh. The doctors, nurses and family members came in and out but He never left. He was a physical presence...