Not The Former Things

I think in words, not pictures. I never knew this was unusual until a recent social media trend where people discussed it. It’s called aphantasia and it essentially means that you have no visual experience when thinking of things in the abstract. I tried to explain what happens to my kids once, when they were…

I’ve spent most of my life afraid. When I was a girl, I was afraid of a lot of really big things. I remember a time when I couldn’t sleep and had, what I now know to be, an anxiety attack at my grandma’s house in the middle of the night. I was worried that…

This isn’t at all what I planned on sharing with you this week. I have a half-written piece about a completely different topic that was supposed to be published today. But, the more I wrote, the more I kept thinking about a different set of events and how they powerfully  illustrate the presence of God…

It’s difficult to know where to start. I have felt compelled to begin this for months, but now that I am actually sitting down to write, my mind is a blur. There’s so much to say. There’s so much I will not say. I have decided the best thing I can do in the midst…