Blood and Fire

    Lost. Floundering. Blindly making my way around sharp corners and endless dark hallways. Grasping and reaching, desperately, for something to hold onto. Anything. Only finding empty air. Heart pounding. Thumping in a panic fueled adrenaline. The feelings. Fear. Anger. Angst. Sorrow. Used. Forsaken. Empty. Always empty. Then… Don’t give up. You don’t give […]

Choose Yourself Happy: My Ten Steps

“Darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable and lightness has a call that’s hard to hear” -Indigo Girls, Closer to Fine I have friends in my life who think I have lived a charmed life. I have fooled them all. My life has not been perfect. I have stuff. We all do. I have suffered my […]

Lessons From the Worst Day of My Life

“And I know it aches and your heart it breaks and you can only take so much….  Walk on.” -U2, Walk On It was my wedding day. We had spent the past year and a half planning every little detail, the string quartet, the candles, the sunset. Yes, even the sunset. One year before our […]