Remember How He Told You

According to modeling by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, the United States will reach its highest daily number of deaths from COVID-19 on or around this Sunday. I find this strikingly ironic due to the fact that this Sunday is also the day that we celebrate...

A Deadly Dementia

No, I don't have actual dementia. I do have what some might call "mom brain," having too much on my mind, or just plain forgetfulness. Sometimes this forgetfulness is funny, like when I watch a movie with my husband for the second time and ask him question after question about the plot. Sometimes it's just annoying, like when I forget to turn the dryer on after putting the clothes in. However, the dementia I'm referring to is serious and harmful. It is not just a funny, comical, trivial forgetfulness that I can overlook and forget about (pun intended).

Look at the Birds

Even before this world pandemic began, I spent a lot of time looking out the big picture window in my living room. Being a stay at home mom, I've spent much of my days playing with my little girl in that room, looking out that window and pointing out the trees, the creek, the grass,...

The Shame in the Struggle

To be honest, I am coming to this blank screen feeling very inadequate, even shameful. Inadequate to write about something that I struggle so terribly with. Shameful that I even struggle with it in the first place. Anxiety. Depression. If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you know that these are deep-seated...