I believe in Divine appointments, and that's exactly what Jessica Allossery's My Little Girl felt like tonight when I heard the song for the first time. I had just picked Bridgy up from gymnastics, and she was so tired from a hard workout. I turned the radio to...
Happy Birthday to my wonderful daughter Juliette who turned 18 recently. I love you, Juliette, forever and ever and ever. I've said it 100 times and it's always truer than the time before. The happiest day of my life was the day you were born. Thank you for being with...
This year for Bridgette's birthday, I gave her a beautiful Soufeel charm bracelet. Unlike the stuffed animals, clothes and gadgets that will eventually end up at Goodwill, the bracelet can stay with her throughout her lifetime. It's something she can pass...
We stole away to Southeast Oklahoma a few weeks ago to celebrate the end of school and the start of summer. All our dreams packed into both Jeeps because one isn't big enough to carry all these hopes. Hopes for a perfect weekend. a perfect cabin, a perfect campfire....
Juliette is my beautiful teenage daughter. Sweet and classy and with a big heart for all God's creatures great and small. She had her junior prom last week. I'm so proud of the young woman she is becoming. She's gearing up for an exciting trip to Europe this summer....
Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. -- Joshua 1:9
We had a beautiful Christmas this year. I am so grateful to God for the gift of motherhood. I'm so glad I get to spend my life taking care of Sullivan, Bridgette and Juliette. They have made me so incredibly happy. It pains me sometimes to look back on pictures of all...
I baked these pumpkin muffins this morning. They're sitting on this old marble washstand I bought in 1992. I got it at the old Spivey's Antique Store that used to be on May Avenue off Northwest 23rd Street here in OKC. I was married to Juliette's dad then. In 1998, a...
This is my daughter Juliette's room. We've been working on it for quite awhile. It's hard to believe she is 17 now, and before long she will not be sleeping in this bed anymore. She'll be off to a world of adventure at college. Wow!! The picture that now hangs above...
In order to write your memoir, you must first know how to remember. If you could have just one memory, what would it be? Here is mine. I am 29-years-old and six days from 30. I'm on my side in a hospital bed. I white-knuckle the rails and sweat like a pig. The nurse...
There were four of us huddled together in the same bed. Two of us were crying and two of us were not. Someone said, "Don't Cry." But, someone else said, "Don't Stop." And, then: "Let them cry their tears of grace." I wondered what it meant and then I found: "Let us...
I want to live an honest life. Writing helps me neutralize my shame and face my failures so they don't control me. I need to write to be healed, one word, one post at a time. Kurt Vonnegut said, "Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to...