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It’s the world’s dirty secret.

I turned thirty-five this month.  I don’t feel thirty-five.  I remember thinking my mother was thirty-six for the majority of my childhood and I definitely don’t feel old enough to be a mother…wait, I...

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Thoughts for Thursday

List every job you have held since you were 18. I sit, staring at that sentence and the seven little boxes given to list all of the jobs I have had since I was 18. There is another sentence about also...

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Moveable Feast

“…deeds are done which appear so evil to us and people suffer such terrible evils that it does not seem as though any good will ever come of them; and we consider this, sorrowing and grieving over it...

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There just aren’t enough hours in the day!!!

This week our cake makers are feeling a little overwhelmed.  Many of us have major events going on at work or in our personal lives that are using up all our energy and brain power.  Finding time to...

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Thoughts for Thursday

You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go,...

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Thoughts for Thursday

Fireflies by Cecilia Woloch And these are my vices: impatience, bad temper, wine, the more than occasional cigarette, an almost unquenchable thirst to be kissed, a hunger that isn’t hunger but...

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For These and All Thy Blessings…

This post is a long time coming… I’m writing at my work desk, looking up at the row of windows above my desk, listening to Patsy Cline, and marveling at how life works out.  It’s hard to believe this...

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Thoughts for Thursday

Come out of sadness from wherever you’ve been Come broken hearted let rescue begin Come find your mercy, Oh sinner come kneel Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can’t heal Earth has no sorrow that Heaven...

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O Captain! My Captain!

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up–for you the flag is flung–for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths–for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call,...

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Thoughts for Thursday

Depression is difficult. This is my story. It’s insidious. It breaks things and hurts people and lives can be pulled apart by it. When I heard the news about Robin Williams on Monday night I was filled...

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