Celebrating and Continuing, Because We Must

December 13, 2011

I have something to tell you. I officially have a book publishing contract with David C. Cook! And I am bubbling over with excitement! I’ve written a sort of spiritual memoir about my dark night of the soul and it’s expected to come out in Spring of 2013.
How did this happen? I mean, I only [...]

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Deeper Story Post: That Thin Murky Veil

December 13, 2011

The following is a post I wrote for the Deeper Story Blog:

I was only in kindergarten when he died. My second year of kindergarten to be exact. I got held back because of my age, and I liked to remind the teacher quite frequently in a grown-up sort of voice, that I had [...]

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The Someone

December 1, 2011

i have conversations with god.
I’m writing that in all lowercase so maybe you’ll be less likely to notice it. Maybe you’ll skim over it like the stones my mom used to skip across West Virginian creeks. Your eyes will bounce one, two, three times until you land HERE. And HERE I can start the conversation [...]

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We Are Writers!

November 30, 2011

Sharing a page from my art journal today…
Because I have friends accomplishing an incredible goal of writing over 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo this month and I want to celebrate them! You are a writer!
Because I remember when I finished NaNoWriMo and Tony told me, “You realize you are a writer now, right? A writer writes, [...]

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The Artist’s Adjustment

November 29, 2011

Standing over the sink on my little white rug that is always in need of a good washing I run the scrub brush back and forth to remove the crusty bits of supper. I watch as the hot water makes baked-on marinara melt off the pan’s edges. I resonate with the melt on some internal [...]

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I’ve Become Messy!

November 22, 2011

Last January I wrote a post about my word for 2011 – MESSY. I knew that to press into the goals and dreams I had for myself, I was going to have to become a lot more comfortable with mess. I made a list last year of the areas of my life that were going [...]

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Earthworms, Knee-Jerk Reactions & My Messy Truth

November 20, 2011

“You have permission to like something you previously disliked.
You have permission to hold both sides of a contradiction as equally true.”
- Roots of She, Yes, You May
“I don’t think I’m tangible to myself. I mean, I think one thing today and I think another thing tomorrow. I change during the course of a day. [...]

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Who Needs The Glasses?

November 16, 2011

We had been playing outside. In the course of playing outside for an extended period of time, my kiddios tend to make a handful of trips into the house. Someone needs to go to the bathroom. Someone needs to fetch a lightsaber from their room for the fierce battle that has unfolded in the front [...]

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Deeper Story Post: Sharing the Hallelujah

November 10, 2011

The following is a post I wrote for the Deeper Story Blog:

“Love is not a victory march. It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.”
- Leonard Cohen

For about a month I had been wanting to smoke a cigarette, badly. Talk about an odd craving. I wrote in my journal “I can’t decide if I need to [...]

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Artists’ Voices Uniting For Japan

November 8, 2011

I am so touched that I got to be a part of an artists’ tribute to Japan in light of the tsunami earlier this year.
One of the few words I remember learning from my grade-school Japanese neighbors is “tomodachi.” Fittingly it means friend. A word that can transcend cultural or ethnic divides. A word that [...]

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