Life Lessons

His 6’4″ frame is standing outside my bedroom door. He is screaming – again. My mother stands in the doorway – in the middle – where she’s always been. She’s safeguarding what she knows is my only haven. She is strong, my mother. I’m sitting in a fetal position on the ground – head buried […]

Last week I saw the biggest spider I’ve ever seen in my life. It was 10:30pm, I was reading in bed, and suddenly my peripherals began to move. I looked across my bedroom floor and two feet away, there it was. It was the size of my palm, its body alone the size of a […]

This afternoon is spent how most of our spring and summer Sunday afternoons are – outside. For a split second, I trick myself into thinking it is a normal Sunday. Into thinking things are as they always are, as they should be. The fresh air is amazing. The glimpses of sun coming and going give […]

The tensions are palpable, so much so they are now impossible to ignore. And they aren’t all exactly the same – everyone you see is carrying a burden you know nothing about. Lack of resources, sick family, loneliness from isolation, anxiety of the uncertainty to come, the list goes on. I was out grabbing a few […]

Living to see and experience a pandemic is something that has left me at a loss for words, but not in the way I expected. Everywhere we turn right now, it seems we are being tempted to fear. The hoarding, the quarantines, the closing of businesses – it is so much. Life as we know […]