From The Whale's Belly

Funny how things hit you sometimes. One year ago today Grandma you left us. This hit me like a ton of bricks today and I would have never guess it would nor that it was even today.  Grandma you were stuck for what seemed like 20 years just in declining and bad health.  I always wondered why […]

Have you ever dreaded going to church? For me that was this past Sunday. I go to Oasis Church now and side note…it has truly been that…an Oasis for me in the midst of this new wilderness.  See an oasis is a fertile spot in a desert where water is found. And in a desert […]

Time marches on…. Time has been marching on.  It’s hard to believe it’s been over 7 months since my life got turned completely upside down.  There have been so many emotions, so many shifts, so many transitions.  One of the stranger things has been the more recent shift of feeling things at a deeper level […]

Do you remember the first time you got hurt? I mean really hurt, like where the balloon of your pride and toughness was finally punctured straight through and you knew you were not okay. For me it was first grade. I was the kid who broke the one cardinal rule of the playground…I walked in […]

There are so many unexpected part and pieces of this journey I’ve been on over the past 6 months. Sometimes I’ve felt like there should be a manual out there on how best to navigate through all of this. So here are just two of the unexpected pieces of this journey that I never quite […]