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Lately, I’ve been thinking about friendships and family the way I think about the fall season. I never expected the colors to change. Everything was beautiful—steady, familiar, full of life—and I thought it would always stay that way. But somewhere along the way, the season shifted. People started slipping away—some by choice, some by circumstance—and I found myself standing in the quiet, wondering what happened. Did I say something? Was it within my control? How did we go fr

I often hear people say that grief is all the bottled-up LOVE you never got to pour out. With so much love still inside, I sometimes feel it overflowing with NoWhEre to go. One safe place I’ve found to release it is by doing the very things my mother loved and pouring myself into them when possible. This September, my brother, sister, and I chose to honor her in that way. Each year, my mother devoted herself to SERVING through her church community, planning for children to h

Imagine this: You walk into a room—something like a conference room—and the second you open the door, everything STOPS. The side...

With the heat rushing in, and shorts, bathing suits, and tank tops making their way out of the closet, June has me thinking about my body...