Thank you. Thank you for the gifts, all of them—the messy, the beautiful, and especially the hard. Thank you to my children who wake up each morning eager to play, to laugh, and to face the world. You remind me to not give up. I am because you are. Thank you to my sisters who […]

I’m thinking of all of us tonight, and the word TRUST keeps coming to my heart. A prayer for trust. Trusting that through all this pain, violence, and anger plaguing our streets, there are angles watching over us. Trusting that there is something larger than all of us guiding our souls to evolution and opening […]

In the past years I have felt betrayed by women in ways that hurt my heart deeper than any man has ever hurt me. As women we’ve been taught to compete, to fight, to judge, to compare, and to pit women against each other. We’ve been taught that there isn’t enough, that we aren’t enough, […]

Today my little boy turns 11 years old. I have a tradition that on each birthday before school, he stands outside in our front yard, in the same place each year, in front of an old tree, and I take his photo. Today we celebrate him because he’s growing stronger, taller, and bigger. He soon […]