Just north of Trinidad, Colorado on Interstate 25, October 26, 2019, 6:31 a.m. “I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been — if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left inContinueContinue reading “Breathless, waiting for dawn”
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Grief is complicated
Originally posted on April 4, 2018. So I went on a journey this last weekend to find my grandparents’ graves. I was in Houston anyway after dropping a friend off at the airport and I don’t get much time off to go adventuring between work and school. I didn’t expect it to be so gut-wrenching.ContinueContinue reading “Grief is complicated”
Remembering Pege
Photo: Hannah Rogers Last month was hard. It seems like I always lose people I care about in October. When you leave fundamentalism, usually no one from that world will listen to you, especially not a parent. Pege and her husband were different. I’d been kicked out of my church two and a half yearsContinueContinue reading “Remembering Pege”
Hope & Healing Grief Support Group begins in September
This article was originally published in The Examiner on August 17, 2017. By Eleanor SkeltonStaff Writer The Hope and Healing Grief Support Group series will begin Monday, Sept. 11, and again on Monday, Oct. 30, at the Samaritan Counseling Center of Southeast Texas, 7980 Anchor Drive, Bldg 500, Port Arthur. These meetings are open toContinueContinue reading “Hope & Healing Grief Support Group begins in September”
Injustice, suffering and The Stoning of Soraya M.
I have serious thoughts this time of year even though I didn’t grow up in a tradition that celebrated Lent. I also have this bad habit of watching disturbing historical films and getting emotionally overwhelmed. A couple of years ago, I watched The Stoning of Soraya M. over winter break. My roommates had just leftContinueContinue reading “Injustice, suffering and The Stoning of Soraya M.”
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