Category: relationships
Updated on November 15, 2019
What if you could be the answer to someone’s prayer?
She did not know about my day. The burned waffles, the lost keys, the cranky teenagers, the hard discussions and the difficult things I was turning over in my brain were not her concern. She didn’t know the …
Updated on January 24, 2019
Things break. What matters is what we do with the pieces
He sped his brand new remote control car into a tree and the wheel broke. He threw a water bottle at a shelf in my office and a statue cracked. He launched a wooden plane across our living …
Updated on May 31, 2018
On being a friend and having a friend
There is no greater gift in life than the gift of a friend. I was six when I first got this. Six years old, and ridiculously shy. Friends were not my thing. I struggled to navigate school without actually having to talk …
Updated on November 22, 2017
On being thankful for our people
I was eleven when I first met her; right at the beginning of that braces, bad hair and awkward shyness phase. I was a student and she was the principal. My goal was to never have to talk to her. Ever. …
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