Recently I picked up a little book to encourage me forward with writing. “Keep Moving” Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Maggie Smith was a gift that I had no clue my soul needed. Each page is filled beautifully with short words of wisdom and encouragement. Every few days I would pick it up […]

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 […]

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 […]

Winter in south Texas is unpredictable. The end of January was no exception in our beautiful slice of hill country heaven.  We knew cold days were coming and with it would come some possible ice and rain. Little did we know that our beautiful landscape which includes majestic oak trees that are centuries old, would […]