I Dare You: Buy the Flowers
Last year, just a few days after Valentine’s Day, the grocery store clerk made fun of me in the checkout line. I emptied my cart, placed each item on the conveyor belt, and tried to keep my mouth from falling open as the gentlemen looked me in the eyes and spoke words...
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
No one stood up when the credits began to roll. Whispered wows mixed with the sound of sniffling as we reached for tissues, blinked our eyes, and stayed for just a moment longer. Like so many others, I grew up watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Childhood...
My 3-Word Prayer When Life Is Incredibly Difficult
The phone lit up — way too late at night — as a text came through that I never wanted to read. My breath caught in my throat as my fingers quickly moved across the screen, anxious to reply and find out more information. I remember thinking “This is...
A Letter to the Girl Who Feels Forgotten
Of all the things I truly dislike writing about, singleness tops the list. But this isn’t about being single, not really. This is about how even when we feel forgotten, we’re anything but. This is about how we’ve been given every good thing we could...
car wrecks and candles
Snow is falling from the trees. Yesterday, it fell from the sky. I’m cozy beneath two blankets, my eyes ever on the window to my right. Drip. Drip. Green begins to appear as the sun slowly but surely melts the many inches of snow that fell for hours,...
A book for the broken hopefuls… Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between
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