It's been a hot minute since I've shared anything here. Life has been crazy and hectic, and 2020 is the year that the whole world basically came to a stop. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed how everything is, everywhere. I've started working from home, and my kids all...

Originally posted 1/3/2016 I was supposed to take the kids out today, to the place where the river cuts through the desert and the wild horses run. We were going to dig up forgotten bones and search out the dried up husks of leaves and seed pods to later turn into...

Originally posted 9/10/2015 Destruction… I lost myself once in a Starbucks parking lot.  I allowed the walls I had built up around myself to crumble to dust, to unceremoniously fall to the ground leaving nothing but broken concrete and glittering glass.  It...

Originally Posted 8/23/2015 Creation I wasn’t always who I am today.  I’ve remade myself.  Walked myself through fire and coal, dragged myself from ash and soot.  There were some years where I was so lost I couldn’t see my way through and I had to...

Originally posted 8/10/2015 You guys.Life is so good.Even when things are crazy and hard.Because you’re alive.And there are sunsets, and rainstorms, and puppies, and wishes on stars.The hard stuff is what makes all the good stuff so good.It’s the rough edges and...

Originally posted 7/19/2015 “Look at this, Georgia.”  She said, showing me the photo she had just taken.  We had spent the afternoon moving through the rooms in her house, carefully examining and trying to represent the words clarity and confusion....