We Said It Enough
There are those families that reserve their I love you’s like expensive candy in a jar, bought overseas, limited and finite. When it’s gone, it’s gone. There’s not enough for us to eat it anytime we want. There are those parents who have a hard time saying it to their kids or to each other.
You Should Grow Your Hair
You should grow your hair out, he told her. I like girls with long hair.
I Don't Have a Patchwork Heart.
I don't have a patchwork heart. Because the constructs of my heart are not dependent on man, or men, or circumstances of my life. The beating of my heart and the strength of its muscles are because I find myself in Christ.
"Dump It All"
The realization settled on me - this was all that was left of her life. Everything she bought, everything she carefully considered and saved up for, every piece of art she had decided to hang on her wall - all of it was gone.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom.
- I hear she is great to shop with, but I hate shopping. So, ask my sister or Lyndsay and Rachel’s mom.- She whines about her glasses always being dirty as she is holding them in her hands and rubbing them with her fingers.- She knows every song written by James Taylor, and with most of the hits of the 70s she can tell you right where she was when she listened to it.