My mind has been dwelling on sins and habits, especially anger and procrastination. I’ve also had these two stories running in my brain for weeks now. The first was from long ago, a high school project I procrastinated on. The other story occurred just a few weeks ago, an angry Read More
Category: parenting
Interrupting the Shame Tape
Shame runs tapes in my mind, and they start to play at the oddest moments. On one of the occasions I’ve almost hit a deer on the roads close to home, my oldest son screamed from the back seat, and I heard that tape start to play. His scream was Read More
The Golden Hour
I am haunted When I was sixteen, the movie A River Runs Through It, hit me like a freight train. I will not deny, a young Brad Pitt might have had something to do with it. However, there was something else about the story, the words of an author coming Read More
Fear and Failure
Recently my oldest son refused to perform an ordinary task. Despite the mission being age appropriate and something he had already practiced with an adult, fear and anxiety seized him. He would not budge. His task was to get out of the car, walk down a long sidewalk toward the Read More
Please Just Don’t Be a Serial Killer
I am a single mom. That sentence holds a lot of weight for me. I feel its heaviness, its sin and sadness and shame. However, I do not associate all of that loaded statement as a painful burden. Perhaps it is blind confidence or irrational optimism, but I feel my Read More
Conflicted Parenting: A Word to All the Heartless Moms
Two ideals of myself met themselves on the highway during a downpour with no one else around to see, and that was kind of the point. The two of us seldom meet, the loving, selfless mother and the 21st century Queen of Generation Me. I don’t really like for anyone Read More