Last weekend was Mother’s Day and I wanted to share some words I wrote a few years ago. This photo is one that stops me in my tracks. In Mom’s death bed, with her as she takes her last breaths. An earth-shatteringly hard experience, but I wouldn’t have been anywhere else. You are changed once […]

As someone who lost a parent earlier than expected, it is hard to not go into the month of loss without a certain dread. Even after almost 5 years of my mom leaving this earth, the pain of what could have been will always linger. February will always be a month of remembering Mom. My […]

Each year I find myself brimming with anticipation of the Holidays. Maybe it’s the little girl that still resides inside or the beauty that the month of December can hold. We were only a few hours into Thanksgiving day this year when I realized that I was not ok. Not only did I not have […]

In 2022 I took a big leap of faith and attended my first writing conference. Becoming a writer has been something that I have slowly worked at for years. From the early days in 2010 as an infertility blogger, to starting a women’s ministry for a short time, the written and spoken word has always […]

Mom (Melanie) and I before our first Walk to End Alzheimer’s in 2013. Grief is a funny thing. One minute you are a woman confidently walking through a place that you feel at home and the next minute you are sobbing in the Atlanta airport. My sweet mama has been gone for four years. But […]