For how long will you allow your rights to be disregarded?
Thoughts from a daughter…
4am and lost in thought. Thinking of dreams unrealized and promises broken. Leadings of God not followed and the unhappy consequences of those actions. Praying a little. “God, you know what I want to do with my life, right?”, even as I look forward at the years which lie ahead to realize that the number …
Rosa Parks Moment? Or Simple Compliance?
Well we’ve certainly had a lot of fun talking about Starbucks. After listening to the call placed to the police, After watching the interview of the two men arrested, After reading the (short) interview with the manager, After learning that loitering became an issue at this location and policy was enacted one year earlier to …
Maybe, Just Maybe
I marvel as he continues to draw me even still, and it causes the flickers of hope to ignite within me that maybe,
Win their heart.
When I compare the woman I am today with the woman I was when I was young, I grieve. Young me was downright mean at times. I'm sorry for those days. Life has a way of teaching us what matters. Who matters. You sit on the couch, involved in a heated argument, and your mouth …
Trump vs Kelly
I stand by Fox's M. Kelly, and I liked her questions. The left is going to hammer those same points in campaign ads, and sound bytes of Trump saying a woman would look beautiful on her knees will play so often - we will hear them in our sleep. Especially if he ends up running …
The Lesson
I fell for someone once. Hard, fast, tumbletumbletumble Head over heels The swoon you read about in books, I fell for him. He was a writer. That was half of it right there. I had read something he had written and was moved powerfully. So I wrote him a small letter, And he wrote back. …
Root Them Out
Today's thoughts. I face painted a twin boy, once, whose twin had died. He was four or five. His mother told me in whispers that the brother died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head. His father in prison. He hit the child too hard in anger. It is difficult to convey …
You Have Not Lived….
Until you've heard the words, "Mommmmm! Josiah put hair removal creme all over his hair!". Yes. You read that correctly. My ten year old son rubbed, not one, but two applications of hair removal creme into his beautiful sandy brown hair. When his sister got married, she and her bridesmaids were primping and beautifying every …
No Man Gets To Break You
No Man Gets To Break You.