Like with any nasty burn, you can learn from the cause and effect to better prepare yourself for next time. Use this time to consider what qualities you really desire in a partner. Previous Apathetic Dragging yourself out of bed each morning can be exhausting whenapathyhas set in. You might...
Like the Bronze Age or Steam Age, this term has entered the lexicon to describe how our world has changed thanks to computer programming. It’s all about smartphones and Facebook and iPads affecting our everyday lives. Mostly, I don’t care what other people do with their toys. After a...
As beautiful and heartbreaking and undeserved as Jesus’ death was, there was a point where He had to choose it. And that’s the moment I can’t quite describe and yet love so very much. A moment where His Father must have looked at Him and said, “This is it. It’s time.” ...
This has been days in the writing. When I saw the quote below just scrolling through Instagram, it stopped me in my tracks. Withholding (as defined here) goes way past “not knowing what to say” or “placing boundaries” or any measure of shyness or introversion. Withholding is actually ...
Legally, the term nuisance is traditionally used in three ways: ← to describe an activity or condition that is harmful or annoying to others (e.g., indecent conduct, a rubbish heap or a smoking chimney) ← to describe the harm caused by the before-mentioned activity or condition (e.g....
Sacred, a word that invited itself into my heart a couple of months ago, a word I’d rarely used to describe my life or my living and its contributions as quietly important. Significant. An ask came and with my yes came the assurance that this thing I’d been called to do was sacred...
In American slang, abangeris an energetic song that makes you want to dance. Bangin’(an accented way of sayingbanging) is used to describe a song that is great for dancing. Both can also refer to a really good song or artist, or anything impressive. ...
The anxiety of waiting. Picturing my daughter eating dinner with Gabe and my mother, babbling away, asking where I am. Or not asking, because fear doesn’t yet exist. The first time, as I learned I had a blood clot in my thoracic outlet, I floated. I was young enough to have never...
I’m a natural talker. It wasn’t hard for me to narrate life. I’mstillwording the experience as we go. The more you talk around your children and describe what you are doing, the sooner they will have words to use. And the sooner they have words to use, the easier communication ...
arms tucked close to one’s sides:distress, embarrassment, solemnity, suspicion exaggerated arm and hand gestures:aggression,anger, belligerence, combativeness, excitement hugging someone:love hugging everyone in sight:excitement hugging oneself:anxiety, defeat, desperation, disappointment, fear, humiliation...