Identity

Everyone has a persona they put out in the world. Some use their identity to define who they are as a person. I was guilty of using my career as my identity. It was where I obtained the self esteem to take care of my family. My identity has evolved over the past 10 years, …

Friends

Moving certainly impacted my friends list. The cool thing about living in this era is technology. While I don't get to see my Utah friends often, I do get to keep up with them virtually. Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Marco Polo and Duo have made it easy to send messages back and forth. These messages have …

Glimpse

This week I had a moment with a friend that made me stop and realize how far I've come since April 2016. My friend was venting about how much she works and how when she goes home it's to a messy house and demanding people. She arrived home at 8:30PM after working a 12 hour …

Thoughts

The last few months have been interesting to say the least. Covid-19 upended the world and we are still seeing the ramifications of someone's poor decision. I have always been a conspiracy theorist so I of course am curious about what has really happened. Politics aside, this thing has changed our world and lives. In …

Faith

Faith is believing in something you can't see. Faith is how I made it though every bad situation, stressful event, unpleasant moment in my life. My son is learning about God. He's learning that life is hard and through faith people overcome the difficult spots. It has been interesting to watch an 8 year old …

Life

The experts aren't kidding when they say it happens fast. Nor is it bad advice to not blink. One thing is for sure, you really can't predict how it turns out. The thing I'm proud of is the effort I put into my family. I had a friend tell me once that the fact I …

Gratitude

As I prepared for this Thanksgiving by cleaning my house and buying a freezer for half a beef coming soon. I was struck by the contrast a couple of years make. The first Thanksgiving without Jerry was just plain weird. Jerry loved food. He told me that his one requirement for a wife was that …

Time

Within a few days of my husband dying I heard the Tracy Lawerence song, "Time Marches On". The lyrics always stuck with Jerry as his dad was buried beneath a maple tree. I was struck by how people just kept living their lives like nothing major had happened to my family. Fast forward three and …

2 Dimensional

I think I'm the human version of flat Stanley. For those who have never heard of flat Stanley it is a story most second and third graders hear and get to create. It is a story of a boy who magically makes himself flat so he can mail himself to far away places. That's where …

Stress

When I was a teenager I ran around using the word STRESS in the place of SHIT. I suppose it was a better choice, at least I didn't appear as white trashy as I felt. It also explains why I say flamingo, fish sticks, and ferdinand regularly as my f word of choice. Substitution at …