All the selves I was – Babies Toddlers Teenagers – they are still inside me. Fractured into lonely rooms of pain. An orphanage in my...

Dear starling sister, Faceless sister, nameless sister, Our sisterhood in shared pain, not shared name – I remember now that I saw you on...

Hey, if you want to buy the purple mermaid folder, Buy it. It's really okay. I'm so sorry I said it wasn't. Do not choose the cheaper...

thump thump thump thump thump My head against my bed, again. Every night, for three months. Every night the monsters came. "Die, you...

I want to be like you, God But please don’t let it hurt I want to love like you, God. But please, not with grief. I want to count your...

My Savior is a God of scars who drank no vinegar. He knows deep suffering, and yet never gave in to bitterness. He clearly chose and...

“Give me ears to hear, Lord.” My heart beats fast. I should be peaceful. New house. New hope. I look at the huge bathtub, the huge...

I looked back at the creek behind me. The last thing I wanted to do was go stand in it. But the thickets and thorns before me were...

I looked out the window while walking on the treadmill, and I realized I could still see the trees. The sun sets so early here in North...

Patience is hard for me. I want my blessings -- a house to live in again, another baby, this book to be written and done. When these...

The Savior once taught me the beauty that lies in the middle of grief. I'd just recovered some of the worst memories of what my father...

"Upon whose bodies the fire had no power." Daniel 3: 25 I once described myself as a pile of ashes with only an ember remaining. My body...

Esther was audacious when she marched unbidden into the inner court of King Ahasuerus, risking her very life to petition for her people....