If you’re anything like me with a love for anything green, it’ll start out as one or two plants. Before you know it, a week goes by and you’ll have twelve. As overwhelming as this may seem, when...

Being forced to choose careers and how my life was going to go was always much more difficult than it should have been.  I fumbled between teaching, writing and acting jobs for the first twelve years...

I always knew that one day, I’d be driving a car. What I didn’t know was how soon it would be.  My dad was the first person to take me driving. I was 13. He’s a professional truck driver, so...

We all do it.  Inhale, exhale. See, I just did it right now. Inhale, exhale. It's natural, until it's not. It all started at my cousin's house. I was hanging out and he asked if his friend...

I’ve always been a picky eater. Growing up, if anything unknown appeared on my plate, it meant the world was ending. One distinct memory of this is when my parents served us Hamburger Helper for dinner....

There are plenty of qualities that I would say we all are born with and learn in our early years that shape us. Yet, what really stands out to me when I think about being kind is the way we treat other...

“When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful,” the television blared.  Five-year-old me sat on the middle of the blue carpet in my parents’ bedroom sobbing. I blubbered “I won’t abandon...

If you talk to anyone my age, you’ll discover very few of us have a role model. Finding someone unproblematic and worthy of idolizing is hard to come by. WIth the rise of social media and cancel culture,...

I grew up in my church.  I did arts and crafts in the nursery and sang songs about living in God’s big house. I was taught the Bible stories about Moses and baby Jesus being born. My church had a...

Admit it, you’ve walked through the hallway and seen someone who you thought dressed weird or wore strange things, such as tails or wolf ears. You’ve thought in your head, “that’s weird… why...