It doesn’t matter what happened TO you or what happened BECAUSE of you. After junior high, my family moved!  A new county and a new school district where NOBODY knew me. (There IS a God!) I was popular. I got invited to parties. I was the girl who said “yes”—to EVERYTHING! “We’re gonna sneak out […]

When my crackhead ex-husband was finally gone for good, I filed for divorce and that’s when his HUNT for me began. I was baffled. How could I get through my life without him tracking me down and stealing all my stuff—JOY or otherwise—for the rest of my life? I decided to run and hide! That’s […]

There are plenty of memories that are forever burned into my brain that I WISH I could forget.

The more I tell my story, the more I realize how much HIDDEN HURT there is, out there in the world! I walked off the platform at a church, after sharing the dark and scary things about my life, nervous that people would think LESS of me. That’s when I bumped in to a 50ish […]

I wonder, how many drinks have been consumed, tears cried, extra hours worked, and circles run, trying to figure out the answer to this question? “Why did they reject me?” Ask ANY attractive, successful, confident-looking person if they’ve ever felt rejected. They’ve probably got a whole laundry list that rolls right off their tongue. We’ve […]