Choosing Joy

Choosing Joy

I chose to create this blog for the main purpose of encouraging and supporting those who care for the hurting. People in crisis need people who believe in them and those who work to pull them up out of the sand. I also know that life isn’t always fair. Life...
Music: The Open Window

Music: The Open Window

Have you heard of the ACEs study? I won’t go into detail of the entire study, but hit the highlights. CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experience study, 1985 to 1987 is one of the largest study on childhood trauma and its lasting effects, In a nutshell, the...
Good With Color

Good With Color

Growing up a middle child and the only girl (until I was almost 13 and my darling sister was born) I developed a competitive streak with my two brothers. I felt like I had to try harder, do better and achieve more than they did. To be fair, that was not pushed on to...
Writer’s Perspective

Writer’s Perspective

I am blessed (and I do mean blessed) to have many such positive reviews on my novel, The Boy in the Basement. When I read a review that demonstrates to me that the reader really understood where I was leading them; I feel so humbled and validated. However, although...