Image Credit: Pexels- Priscilla In a short ten-day span, my best friend of eleven years passed away, and then my divorce was final. I am only forty-four. I should not be burying friends, nor did I want the divorce. The days have been dark and gloomy with the two people I typically confide in just…

Image Credit: Unsplash- Sheila Jellison Nobody can quite prepare you for that transition. Not the one where you finish your degree, and you finally have to make some sense revolving around the word ‘adulthood’ (or, indeed, a lack of it). It’s that change where you decide to pack up your life into two fairly large…

Image Credit: Pexels- Emma Bauso A few days ago, I watched my oldest child walk across the stage and graduate from high school. I remember bringing him home from the hospital, swaddled in blue and full of newness. And now, just like that, I have an adult son preparing to step into his next chapter—college.…

Image Credit: Pexels- Andrea Piacquadio Forgiveness is often wrapped in a religious ideology, twisting the belief that to move forward in life, we must forgive those who hurt us. If we are unable to release and move past the trauma they caused, we are shamed into unworthiness of God’s love. For all my 44 years…

Image Credit: Pexels- Rachel Claire July is here. And whether we’re ready or not, it quietly marks something we don’t always talk about: The beginning of the second half of the year. Remember back in January, when we scribbled plans into journals, whispered dreams into existence, set goals with shiny-eyed hope? We told ourselves this…

This image was taken by our writer Karina Coghlan. Summer is here. The sun is shining, school is out, and families take vacation. It’s the season of road trips and airplanes (although not everyone is a fan of sky travel). It’s the season of adventure. Hiking, camping, fishing, the list goes on and on. As…

Image Credit: Unsplash- Pedro Kümmel The human life cycle is constantly at work. From the initial moments of breathing outside of the womb to the moment we take our last breath, we evolve. We are works in progress. The pace may not stay consistent; sometimes in our lives, we may grow at the speed of…

Image Source: Unsplash- Anna Keibalo  Do you ever find yourself drifting off into a frenzy, consulting your inner darkest thoughts to yourself, before consolidating to ‘that friend’? Have you ever had a photo pop up in your memories, and you wonder what your relationship would have been like now? And have you pictured yourself after…

A very moment when I felt like an echo in an empty room, my voice bouncing back at me, but never truly heard. I wandered through the days feeling like I was too much and not enough all at once; too deep, too emotional, and too caught up in my thoughts. I felt like drowning…

Image Source: Pexels- Francis Seura There are moments in life that arrive quietly, yet change us forever. My first Christmas is one of those moments—bright, unexpected, and filled with a kind of warmth I didn’t know I needed. Growing up, Christmas was always something that belonged to other people. I saw it through windows, through…