Always lurking. Looming. The looming dread. The looming fear. The looming unknown. People say "get out of your comfort zone" and let me tell you that most of my life is spent getting out of my comfort zone because I am never entirely comfortable. But the difference today is that I know myself enough to know …
A GrubHub Delivery Was the Key to Finding My Christmas Spirit
The water seeped through the kitchen floor from the refrigerator water line to the ceiling of the basement and then flooded the floor. So the crews came in and did the same thing they did two years ago when we flooded. That time it was from the outside, and this time it came from INSIDE …
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Just because I’m not shouting doesn’t mean I don’t rage
We with the tender hearts. It hurts to watch. To listen. To read. It hurts my tender heart to feel the hate and the fear in the words behind the snarled teeth and the overbearing gestures. The shots fired and received. The venom and the sharing of it wide and far. My heart was not …
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Too Sober For This 