I guess I just figured she’d always be here. Probably because she always has been for me.  Wrapped around every big life moment of mine and a heap of little ones was a smile from her.  A smile, and a smattering of compliments, a ready hand, a relatable story, and a big ol’ heaping helping […]

This is big.  Like, humongously gigantic.  I am forever changed. I’m about to tell you a story that I wish each of you could have seen with your very own eyeballs so there would be more of a chance that it would sink into your very souls and change you, too.  But, if you’ve read […]

I heard this quote not long ago and it stuck with me… At Christmas, we like to see things in their proper place.  We unwrap the oldest legends and the ancient truths.  We like our angels unchanged and our rituals familiar.  We like the right faces around the table, the right carols sung, the promise […]