I Choose This
It’s so bumpyAnd we are bruised as we bounce aroundBanging knees and armsAnd even sometimes heads or heartsKnocking into each other and all the things around us as we go It is almost never smooth sailing, as they sayThough there…
Jinny Scribbles
Processing life through writing. Be warned, I often change my mind with new information.
Jinny Scribbles
Processing life through writing. Be warned, I often change my mind with new information.
Family
The Bigger Truth About Being a Stay Home Mom
As I have been applying for jobs and trying to get back into the workforce, I have spent a lot of time and emotional resources noticing the cost of choosing to step out of a career to be a stay…
Letting Hard Things Be Hard
It wasn't until I started talking about all of the trauma as trauma that the panic attacks around pregnancy and birth stopped. I have come to firmly believe we have to let ourselves acknowledge that hard things are hard.
It is dangerous to think that only perfect things can be beautiful and good. Or that hard parts of relationships make them have any less love.
So to honor that idea, this is the rest of my birth story.
Eliza Jane Sant – child bride of polygamist Edmond Hepworth and my Great-Great-Great Grandmother
Eliza was 6 years old the summer she walked the whole way from Nebraska to Utah. There was only one wagon for every 12 people in the company, so everyone had to walk, even little Eliza. She and most of…
Sticky Fingers
My fingers
Are always sticky
It seems
The Injury of Apron Strings
It's not an apron string being cut
I swear it's actually a flesh wound
Inflicted with violence and prejudice
Bleeding and raw
But Is
I watch this little baby
Who shouldn't be in my bed
But is
Tuesday at 10 a.m.
The feeling that I've lost myself
That girl who felt
Powerful
Unstoppable
The Many Miracles of Benjamin Michael
The story of Benjamin is a story of miracles.
Life of Sketch of Dorothy Ruth Carlin
Ruth’s real love in life was people. She made you feel like an old friend from the moment you met her. She never forgot a birthday and spent hours of her life on her phone and computer keeping in touch with all of the people she loved all over the world.