Careers and Men

Wow, at face value, this sounds so true, right?  A guy can turn his back on you.  He can die.  He can cheat on you.  He can just be a jerk.  Why put your trust in a guy.   A career -- a career you can cater toward you.  A career allows you to support …

The Hard Times

Anna Ilona Mussman wrote this post about fear, hard times, and the flighty nature of happiness.  Reading it, I could feel what it was like again, being a twenty-something, young marriage, babies coming, career starting--everything possible.  Everything ahead. Oh boy, do I remember that. Hard times came.  Three miscarriages - four if you count the …

What I Gave Up for Lent…Every Lent

(warning:  mildly graphic) With everything in me, I knew I was pregnant.  My body screamed it to me.  I was late, my breasts ached, I was nauseous.  Pregnant. The urine test said “no.”  The first one I had taken with Chris was negative, too.  I’d had an ectopic pregnancy six months ago, so they ordered …

Was I Supposed to Call You Back?

Somewhere along the line, I started hating the phone. Not sure when.  I was constantly on it when I was in junior high and high school.  Jeff and I had a 3 year, long-distance relationship where we talked to each other almost every day. But I don't like it now.  In fact, I come pretty …

The Timing of Hamlet

For my 2015 Reading List, I want to read five Shakepeare plays.  I've read Hamlet many times before, but I am getting ready to study it with Chris and Maggie. Shakespeare gets his stories from legends belonging to other cultures.  When we studied Hamlet in high school and college, teachers always gave the setting as …

When Spring Came Quickly

When I was a kid, I was a chronic insomniac. My parents, being merciful (or wanting their own sleep), let me have a TV in my room back before kids having TVs in their rooms was a thing. My already sleepless nights were full of Logan’s Run, Sybil, and the Deerslayer – the shows that …

Book Review: Dead Poets Society

A few months ago, before Robin Williams died, I was looking for "Dead Poet's Society" on Netflix and Amazon Prime, in order to show my kids.  At that point, neither of them were making it available for streaming, but it showed up under the book listing.  It had never occurred to me that it was …

My Favorite Post from 2014: Baptism and Pain, a Counselor’s Perspective

This is my favorite post from 2014.  It was one of my first on this blog. Baptism and Pain -- A Counselor's Perspective "Baptism doesn’t come up much in a counseling session,” I remember a colleague stating in a meeting. I was surprised.  I was still in my internship as a Mental Health Counselor, in …

2015 Reading List

A good portion of this year's reading list are books that I have on hand, but have never finished.  So, it's kind of a way to wrap a lot of things up and dive into things I've wanted to for a long, long time.  It's the first year I've worked with a reading list.  It …

Sinners in the Hands of a Merciful God

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. …