Away With Words

But can you love them when they’re broken? When they are shattered into pieces and their words cut you like glass? Can you bear the brunt of their ...

I wish I could piece together the right words that could piece you back together. That I could offer you the most perfect warm hug that makes all...

Maybe you don’t realize it, but there are people from your hometown who you may only consider acquaintances, people you once knew, faces you maybe ...

Watching someone you love lose someone they love is a unique kind of pain. You know there is nothing you can do to fix it. You know your w...

We don’t need to hear that it goes by fast, to soak up every moment, to enjoy them while they’re young. We feel it every day. The way they grow...

When the joy of learning you were coming simultaneously filled me with so much fear and worry. When a few weeks after hearing the news, I wond...

I hope you always feel the depths of my love. I hope you take that love and lead with it in everything you do. I hope you fall so deeply in love wi...

One day I was in the waiting room at the doctor's office and this old man was chatting with the woman next to him. At on...

The loss of someone you love creates the hole in you where grief comes to live.  Grief moves in with no intentions of leaving. It will be there for...

For months now I’ve had this word pop into my head. Precipice. I don’t even think that’s a commonly used word, is it? It would pop in my head in qu...

When my son was born another mom who had their child the same time as us posted something about celebrating "one month of absolute bliss" with thei...

I have younger sisters. I have a lot of younger girl cousins. I see them, so eager and excited and frankly, just jonesing for the next phase of the...