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February 2018

February 26, 2018

March 8th is Quickly Approaching: Request and A Book Review

As many of you who are regular readers of mine know, March 8th will be...

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...

November 2017

November 02, 2017

All Souls Day as a Grieving Mother: Year 1

When I walked around the cemetery in Rome and came across this headstone I thought...

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...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

Interview With Shaun Morgan From Seether About Suicide

I met Shaun Morgan, the lead singer of Seether, in 2005 at Hooters in Amarillo,...

July 2017

July 17, 2017

Broken

My best friend Candie Flores and my husband do not read books. They just don't....

July 11, 2017

Book Review- Healing Promises: The Essential Guide to the Sacred Heart

The first Mass when I realized there was something special about Communion was at my...

July 07, 2017

A Note From Way Back Here

I was just a child myself waiting on my baby to be born. I had...

April 2017

April 19, 2017

The Tomb of Grief

Last week I wrote about what happened the day that my son Anthony died by...

February 2017

February 17, 2017

Rejecting God

It's no secret to anyone who has been reading my blog these past ten months...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

Absent Fathers

A few weeks ago I sat in child support court for almost an entire day...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Life: the Gift that Bites You in the Ass

You know how I said that I used to think I knew everything about parenting?...

May 09, 2016

Lady Gaga, a Cure for the Mondays

I woke up this morning with a picture of Lady Gaga and a priest and...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

I need to Know how to Love Jackwagons

I had great plans on how exactly Friday morning was going to go down. Pope...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

Babies, Sex and Birth Control

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

December 2015

December 23, 2015

Oh, Hillary…. #NotMyAbuela

I'm trying to write this post about Hillary Clinton and it's difficult because the freakin...

December 07, 2015

Planned Parenthood and Women’s Healthcare

Can we all stop pretending that Planned Parenthood is the end all, be all hero...

November 2015

November 29, 2015

Our Common Ground

Hateful insults fling from both sides of the abortion debate and fuels violence from both...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Six Years, no Arrests

It's been 6 years since I've been arrested for anything. I spent 11 years in...

March 2015

March 21, 2015

7QT: Lice, Dog Bites, and Mary

1. So, it's been awhile since I joined 7 Quick Takes. You know life is...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

7 Quick Takes about Grown Children, Being a Hermit, and Music

1. It's Halloween annnd I have nothing to do except get my 15-year-old son a...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

The Red Door

A week ago today the body of a 2-year-old little boy was found in a...

September 05, 2014

7 Quick Takes about dreams that come true, dreams that are barely being dreamed and pest control.

1. So, last week I wrote about how I wanted to start The Red Door...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Fitting In with Wounds

This past weekend I attended The Edel Gathering. There were so many reasons why I...

June 2014

June 15, 2014

A Mother's Duty to Honor Fatherhood

I grew up raised by a single mother who tried her best to give me...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

There but For the Grace of God

When I got divorced from my first husband at 28 I went a bit crazy....

May 2013

May 31, 2013

7 Quick Takes Friday (Vol 6)

1. You know it's been a long day when you are trying to tune out...

May 27, 2013

Our World Needs Intentional Disciples of Christ

It has been a crazy few weeks. I am not really sure what is going...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

Lent, my Baby Daddy and My ex-Husband

I was thinking of writing a very serious post on motherhood and how it can...

January 2013

January 18, 2013

Be the Woman God Made YOU To Be

I was once again woken up at 6am buy my angel. How do I know it...