Like so many of us, I've spent weeks swept up in the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Podcast. It has been unexpectedly triggering, validating, freeing (sort of), and oddly explanatory of so many experiences and emotions that just didn't make sense. I was a little girl when I received my sexual education, though in [...]
I was twenty-four years and seven months old, to the day. The doctor who had saved me with a shot six long years before had been the one to tell me, with saucer wide eyes, that my uterus had been the biggest mangled mess he'd ever seen. That poor piece of me had survived through [...]
{image credit Debby Hudson} Dear Mom, Although we are friends now, we haven't always been in this place in life. When I was growing up, you were distant. Not distant in a way that I couldn't see, hear or touch you, but you just had somewhat "checked out" as a mom. Being the baby of [...]
There is this amazing time-lapse video bouncing around the internet that shows the blossoming of various mushrooms deep within forested areas. It is absolutely fascinating, disgusting, inspiring and flat-out-weird all at once. Isn't that life, though? Most of the time. As humans, we stumble upon stories ripped straight from the lives of others. The horrific [...]
Rainy Day in May... 