Lessons

  On Good Friday I went to Stations of the Cross at my parish. It...

  Earlier this week I considered writing up something about how to grieve during Holy...

Right now, I am sitting at the 1-year mark of the day between my birthday...

  The other evening my husband and I were driving to the grocery store as...

  A few weeks ago I was thinking about how I was going to keep...

I am twelve days away from going through hell. It will be one year since...

On Wednesday March 8th at 1:51 my oldest son called me to ask if he...

I have had a lot of people tell me that my faith in the aftermath...

I never sold or did drugs but I dated drug dealers. I hung out in...

I see discussions where parents are all trying to figure out how to keep their...

I met Shaun Morgan, the lead singer of Seether, in 2005 at Hooters in Amarillo,...

The first Mass when I realized there was something special about Communion was at my...

Two days ago I had a really bad day. Every single wound I have ever...

It has been a crazy 48 hours since the election results came in and Donald...

My original plan for today was to drink and wait for Jesus. I was not...

  Last night I wrote this post about losing myself. I went to bed thinking...

I have an amazing therapist. In the  three and a half years that I have...

Today I was sitting in the car with my two youngest sons and this song...

Waiting tables is a story of how different things are "behind the scenes" verses what...

I am over at Aleteia talking about grief and how I used to try and...

I have been feeling pretty low lately. I don't feel loved or appreciated by my...

A few weeks ago I was cleaning the bookshelf in my living room and I...

I am off of work today after getting up at 6am since last Sunday for...

Awhile back I wrote a blog post saying that I have no parenting advice. Well,...

I'm going back to waiting tables. I am not really sure how it happened really,...

A few weeks ago I sat in child support court for almost an entire day...

I kept reading people's opinions about the Stanford rape case to the point of having...

You can log in, but you can never leave. That is exactly how I feel...

You know how I said that I used to think I knew everything about parenting?...

Here are just a few of the issues that I have been dealing with in...