“Parenting doesn’t fix your flaws, it exposes them. It shows you the parts of yourself that you’ve been hiding from.” Lewis Martin Nobody really tells you what it means to be a parent. They just give you that slow, knowing smile when you announce you’re having a baby, the one that says, “We’ll pray for…
We all write our stories differently. Mine just has a few blank pages labeled ‘Nope, not interested. Me We all have those ‘Never have I ever…’ moments the kind that would either make people laugh, gasp, or wonder if we’ve actually lived under a rock. I’ve never really played the game (because… crowds), but I…
There are those we remember, and those we forget. Somewhere in between are the names, faces, and dreams lost too soon. This poem is a conversation with grief, memory, and the unbearable thought of being forgotten. For every young life lost, in one fight or another, may we remember them. And maybe in that memory,…
Big Girls Don’t Cry
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Dr Martin Luther King Jr Big Girls Don’t Cry: The part of the story we rarely tell… Last year I made a vulnerable post here about me resigning. That article was shared on multiple platforms, and it even circulated among my…
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