Tag: Love
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The Empath & the Storm

With a pandemic on the rise, let’s talk about all things empathy, and the other important lessons to keep in mind during this time.
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How Your Love Story Can Help Child Brides

I’m lucky, because my love looks like this. All the time. You might read this and think, ‘no ones love is that good.’ I used to think the same thing. Until I met my husband that is. Sure, we have our moments where I jokingly threaten his life for the insurance money, but overall, it…
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Lets Crowd Heaven

Let’s make heaven crowded. Let’s invite the kind people, the mentally ill people, the downtrodden people, the confused people, the loud people, the questioning people, the black, white, and yellow people. Let’s invite the transgender people, and the foreign people. Let’s ask the all of the imperfect people. Lets take with us both the prostitutes…
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The Power of a Decade

Here’s what I know about decades. About a decade ago, I was expelled from high school. The girls that bullied me so bad that I ended up in the hospital contributed to breaking a sense of my self worth that took me the better half of a decade, a lot of lifestyle changes, and a…
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A Letter to the Person Leaving Home for the First Time

A grounded letter to my first time travelers, my dreamers, my soul searchers, and my broken-hearted readers searching the globe for answers.
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My Responsibility Mantra

Pasted to the inside of one of my many journals is this little mantra, that helped me to find balance in all of the things I wanted to accomplish never seemed like they were being accomplished fast enough.
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A Substitute Teacher’s Protest Against Self Doubt

We have an epidemic of self-doubt in our culture, best demonstrated by students in the everyday classroom setting. Though my role in students life is brief, my students and I have figured out how to change this way of thinking, in under 5 minutes.
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Where This Blog Begins

Several years ago I was caught between a prayer, a cardboard moving box, and a bottle of wine. This blog is a result of that. Read how this whole thing got started.