When Your Dreams Fall Apart

My husband and I had a plan. But the year we were supposed to go overseas, we gave birth to beautiful twin girls. And although I had looked forward to becoming a mother my whole life, I was not initially very excited about them. I felt afraid, anxious and uncertain of who I was and […]

Wall of Shame

It all started in high school when I got sick of being on the outside of all the crude jokes. I was seen as a good kid—pastor’s daughter, sheltered and naive about the world. I never understood what the other kids were joking about, so after school I would look up on the internet what […]

Authority, Decisions and Submission

Every time our superiors at work make a decision, we support it 100%, right? Right. I consider myself a loyal employee, but I recently found myself struggling to support a decision made “at the top.” This decision directly impacted me and resulted in a very difficult week as I bore the brunt of angry fallout from […]