How to Support Someone Who Has Experienced Pregnancy Loss
Want to make people feel awkward? Grieve. There's nothing more awkward than being around someone who is grieving. What do you do? Should you ask them about the person they've lost? Or pretend nothing is happening and talk about something else? And what if you say...
Why I Write About The Hard Stuff
When I found out I was pregnant last December, I remember having a weird thought one day in the shower: If this goes south, I need to blog about it. Kind of bizarre, right? Not the thing an excited mom-to-be usually thinks about. But I felt this weird conviction in my...
The Wrong Kind of Water
I felt the lump in my chest grow and the tears well up in my eyes. Someone else was slowly dispensing the good news to family and friends. Someone else was dreaming big dreams and making big plans and basking in the almost surreal joy of it all. Someone else was...
A Spiritual Kick in the You-Know-Where
I remember when my sister and I were little, and we used to wrestle with my dad. Almost inevitably, our wrestling/tickling matches would end with Dad doubled-over in pain from getting kicked...in the you-know-where. I don't have a you-know-where, per se, so I can't...
Focus on the Clutter, Miss the Cross
It is now 10 PM on Easter Sunday as I begin typing this...nothing like waiting until the last minute to write something about Easter. I spent this last week leading up to Easter reading through the different gospels' accounts of the Last Supper, crucifixion, and...
