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How to Care About What You Care About
People ask me all the time, "How can I help?" and I've started being honest. If you want to help writers that you like, sharing our posts, tweeting our posts, talking about our blogs and books, purchasing our books, leaving reviews, commenting on blog posts, following...
Is Your Small Group A Social Club?
This post isn't my first about problems that I've seen in The Church. It probably won't be my last. But what I have learned in the last year is that abandonment can come from the strangest places. Even your church small group. But wait? Isn't it supposed to be a...
The Whole Point of My Blog
My relationship with GOD is always the first thing to suffer when things get difficult for me in the mental health department. I forget how to pray. I forget how important it is to pray. I fight the feelings of shame and failure when things aren't miraculously...
PTSD In a World of Triggers
PTSD is a triggered disorder. Meaning that; seeing, hearing, or over all experiencing things even loosely related to the trauma can cause anything from a panic attack to a full-blown flashback to sometimes, nothing. Being triggered can look a variety of ways. It can...
For Caregivers: Childhood Trauma and Self Soothing
When I was little, I would lay in my bed and brush my hair all to one side. Like someone would if they ran their hands through my hair. When things were scary, I would hide under my bed or in my closet. If that was an option. When I wet the bed, I got up, stripped the...
Owning a Small Business vs. Retail Memes
I own a bookstore. That's right. I own and operate an independent bookstore and I don't hate myself. Things I will tell you: 1. Print books are not going extinct. 2. Amazon is not a threat to me, especially since I use it as a selling platform. 3. It is not okay to...
I Have Nothing To Show For My Life
If you ask me where I'm from, I will doubtless tell you about Northern Virginia. It is a singular place. It's an even more singular place to grow up. In the midst of a largely transient community there is a sub culture of standbys who make their presence known by...
Debtor’s Prison
A few lines from a recent poem. Pretty much summing up how I feel about my finances. "Little to little is much", but when the bills come due and past due, it can be overwhelming.
Chronic Fatigue and PTSD
Yesterday I did second interviews for our seasonals at the bookstore. There is, like with every job I hold, a time when I have to explain certain things to bosses or to, now, employees. Since I've spent the better part of the last four years either hiding the fact...
Rett Syndrome
That's my niece, Kaya. She was diagnosed with Rett Syndrome this year. She is a sweet, loving, and affectionate girl. When my sister, Linda, noticed that Kaya was having trouble communicating it began the long journey to the eventual diagnosis that she has Rett. For...