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June 2018

June 08, 2018

Random Thoughts On Suicide

First, if you are suffering from depression or suicidal thoughts, seek help. Go to a...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

Book Review: When We Were Eve

Reviewing this book is a bit difficult because I am pretty bias. I love...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

If I Can Give One Piece of Parenting Advice

I see discussions where parents are all trying to figure out how to keep their...

September 21, 2016

How I found Myself

Last night I wrote this post about losing myself. I went to bed thinking...

September 20, 2016

When Did I Lose Myself?

I watched my three year old granddaughter today. She ran around in the living room...

September 20, 2016

What do I know? What is Real?

I have an amazing therapist. In the three and a half years that I have...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

Being Joyful Through The Pain, Remembering that I am Loved

I have been feeling pretty low lately. I don't feel loved or appreciated by my...

July 2016

July 24, 2016

Sometimes God Does Not Let Things Go

I'm going back to waiting tables. I am not really sure how it happened really,...

July 13, 2016

What About My Words

As I watched the memorial for the five fallen officers in Dallas yesterday, I was...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

Happiness in a Depressing World

I kept reading people's opinions about the Stanford rape case to the point of having...

June 05, 2016

Hotel CaliFacebook

You can log in, but you can never leave. That is exactly how I feel...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

Friendships: the Casualty of Crisis

Here are just a few of the issues that I have been dealing with in...

May 20, 2016

What I’ve Learned about Parenting

I have been a mother since I was 16 years old. I have given birth...

May 17, 2016

Clavius, Patron of the Skeptical

At the heart of Risen is a conversion story. There are a lot of...

May 12, 2016

I am No Longer Pro-life/ **I need to update this post

** I don't know why Patheos is running this blog post today when...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

Marriages that Can Move Mountains

I just got finished watching Beyonce's visual album Lemonade and I'm blown away. First of...

April 25, 2016

Fear, Discussion and Reality

Yesterday I wrote a post about the bathroom hoopla. It was shared by my fellow...

April 04, 2016

Interview: Shaka Senghor author of Writing my Wrongs

I am so happy to be able to share with you my interview with Shaka...

April 03, 2016

Divine Mercy Indeed

Right now in this moment, life is perfect. I had this aha moment sometime during...

April 02, 2016

Authentic Feminism

I have been watching Scandal and other Shondaland shows for a long time wondering what exactly...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Book Review: Writing my Wrongs by Shaka Senghor

In the pages of Shaka Senghor’s memoir, Writing my Wrongs, I found one theme: the...

March 26, 2016

Holy Saturday: When Love and Mercy defeat Fear and Lies

I have had the best week. It's been a Holy Week full of Grace and...

March 21, 2016

Reconciliation

Reconciliation is what the best moments in life are made of. When we are without...

March 07, 2016

Living the Texas Dream

There has been so much talk lately about the death of the American dream or...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

I’ve Been Binge Watching Scandal and Other Shondaland shows

I am over at Aleteia talking about my binge watching of Scandal and How to...

February 17, 2016

To My 14 Year Old Self: Goodbye

When I was 14 I had already been through things that some adults will...

February 05, 2016

Babies, Sex and Birth Control

It is very difficult to find help when you are poor. Sure it seems like...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

Matt Walsh: The Primer for Trump

When it comes to politics I have gone from right to left and back again....

January 22, 2016

Walking Among Saints in the Making

Last night I went to Adoration at my parish for the first time in months....

January 21, 2016

Book Review: Freedom by Everett Fritz

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Everett Fritz for my radio show on...