Life As a Lion

I have never baked Iced Christmas Sugar Cookies in my life. Or, I should say, I have never wanted to. I made cookies with my stepmother every year, but I don't remember ever…

My mother was not a mentally well woman. She lived with a paralyzing case of anxiety. It combined with heavy depression and narcissism, and then with a heavy dose of mania at…

In an attempt to function highly and participate in society, I volunteered to make the pies for Thanksgiving this year with my new in-laws! Since I am a new wife and mother, it…

Always making room/ Two hearts in my heart and chair/ Impossibly full.

In my house today We can always set a place For anyone here. Potluck at its best Table fills with steaming food Let the turkey rest. Voices grow with time Small crowds…

Real Housewives have hair/ stuffed under piles of their own/ The hair is not theirs.

I wonder, lonely. Is there anyone out there? Only she says yes.

Don't mind if I do! There's nothing I love more than talking about myself, although I genuinely do it from a place of hoping to connect with others and not out of pure…

If I stop waiting for it, will it find me? When it shows up, do I have to not want it? It's not like I want a bunch of crazy things. Just a white bed under a window that looks…