Life is so complicated. Ever feel like everything happening around you is out of your control, and you are just out here trying to do...

The following is based on a true story. An actual conversation between husband and me: H: You don't have any poems about holidays, or cold or extremely hot days. There's an idea. Me: Confused, why would I? I don't like holidays, and I love all weather, and I do write about it. Just not in the context that he meant. I understood what he was saying. Sensitivity Warning: I am not responsible for whatever feels you experience from this point forward. This is strictly based on my

Poetry aside for a moment. When do we stop dreaming dreams? When do we stop believing we can control our destiny? When do we stop...

(page 19) Is submission the ultimate act of love? Controversial of course because that word invokes a sense of violence. The images that...

Would you trade your soul for unconditional love? Would you sacrifice your current life for love that goes beyond anything you have felt...

The life and death of us all. Have you ever loved someone so much it hurt? How about so much that they are all you think about? Or that...

TBH, I'm not really sure what I'm doing out here. I wrote a book of poetry and now my words seem dried up. IF you are checking in, leave...

It's hard to believe the book is here! I fell in love with each of these poems every time I read them in editing. In writing the words, I...

1 Corinthians (13:4-8, 12-13) Chapter and verse Love is patient, love is kind.... blah, blah, blah. Married, divorced, remarried. What the bible doesn't tell. I wonder what Jesus would think of my take on this bible passage. I think a few truths were left out on purpose. Like how hard it is to wake up every day and choose to love the same person day after day, month after month for years and years. You raise children, have careers, parents and siblings, health scares and

"I play them by memory and when I am done I will make it to you, my number one. Reminded by songs of those summers Played over and over like

I would love to share. Disclaimer: This will probably be my longest and most personal post. *In hindsight, this turns out to not be true...

It all started one day in DHS contracts.... A casual statement around the next team building exercise that became known as That F'ing...