When my daughter Sammi was just over a year old, she had surgery to repair a congenital heart defect. After the worst of it was over and she…
Before tucking my three young children (ages 3, 6, and 8) into bed, I look through their bookshelf to find a bedtime story. My contacts sticking to my…
Little white lies. We’re all guilty of using them, whether it’s to protect someone’s feelings or to get out of attending the fifth Pampered Chef party invitation we’ve…
A lot of people wonder what it’s like to have anorexia, but I know all too well. My eating disorder and I coexisted for five years (age 11-16).…
Forty-five years ago a house fire made me want to be a better person. From Kindergarten to Grade 4, I attended a small elementary school in a small…
Dear Joe, Some say, “Of course size matters.” But for me it’s your strength. My heart pounds the moment you’re inside me. Oh how you get me going.…
I had to leave the room today as we watched church on Zoom. We were in our pajamas still, sitting on the couch half asleep. Myself, my husband…
Who’s got the winter blues? For me, the slide down begins after the New Year and steadily declines building rapid speed from there, falling into the pit of…
Digging deep to find your silver lining in 2020 Nine months into the pandemic I found myself no longer annoyed by the little things; I was bothered by…
Subjects labeled ‘urgent’ in bold, with exclamation points, and asterisks everywhere, flooded my work inbox, filled with unread messages, while I frantically scoured through my personal inbox. At…