When I started my nanny job at the end of October, I fell in love with the little girl almost immediately. She didn’t have to do anything to make me feel that way. She was just being who she is, and I adored her for it. I still do. I know that when our baby [...]

I sincerely apologize for how long it has taken me to get this posted. I have been working on it for days, bits at a time, and as much as I wanted to share it sooner, there was just no way to condense some of it. I know this will seem redundant, it seems I’ve [...]

I’ve been asked a good bit recently why I get so passionate about the pro life movement. I’m not going to get into whose decision it is to abort a baby if it has terminal diseases, is a product of rape, or if the pregnancy is endangering to the mother. I am still wrapping my [...]

We have all experienced those moments when the “mess” of our present “muddle” seems like more than enough to handle – then along comes someone telling us to get “deeper” into the “muddle”! I think we all probably might have responded similarly to the one who tells us to get ourselves into a deeper muddle [...]

Hospitalized after a serious injury I developed pneumonia. A culture of my secretions grew out MRSA (mer-sa) and the nurses moved me to an isolation room. My doctors said that if I lived I would have brain damage, be bedridden, and ventilator dependent. They told my husband that he was too young to be stuck [...]

Over many years I have noticed that a lot of mothers relinquish the authority of Mother and try to be a girl friend to their daughters. When the child is young often she is not disciplined correctly for fear that the child won’t love her any more. There is a laissez-faire attitude that is over [...]

I was led to write this article after having a conversation with my pastor several weeks ago. Our conversation had to do with deteriorating families. This deterioration leads to chronic problems for children. Children always suffer when they lose their secure base. The secure base in the home is not just dependent on one parent. [...]

Standing on the precipice facing the open, empty nothing envisioning the wind, the fall, the escape reaching out from the bottom searching for the ending, for my beginning longing for the leap that leads to life and death and every dream at once Do I jump, do I die? Will the wind catch me? Will [...]

No matter how hard I try to figure out why life works the way it does . . . I don’t know why my best friend had to die in a car crash. I don’t know why my 16-year-old daughter is living on the streets. I can’t understand why I’m sad most of the time. [...]

I find myself at a pivotal crossroads as a parent. Both daughters are graduating – one from college and another from high school. My critical parenting years are over. I’m forced to look back and see if I spent my time wisely. Was I present to participate in the “MAGICAL MOMENTS” in their lives? Did [...]