I choose me. What does it feel like? To love yourself. To choose you. When your whole life you were taught to love everyone else? I look in the mirror. How did my self get so tattered and worn? To let my soul go, Become so weary and forlorn. I thought of the...

She was scared from the start, This much she knew, How it began she knew not, But this much held true. The world was full of beauty and terror, Love and pain, Fear and courage, Loss and gain, Ups and downs; A roller coaster for sure. To survive the trek, She would...

You see, all these years post-loss, I have been hammering pieces and parts. Building the home all this time, Even though I had not recognized it at all. Nine years a widow, "Homeless" because his heart was my home. But I was never meant to take up residence there,...

If I should die before I wake, teach my kids that a house is not a home; Even another person or relationship is not “home.” People are gifts merely on loan to us, not things we can own. Teach my kids to make a home for themselves within themselves; That which...