Everyone has a limitation. We are human, and it’s impossible not to have one. I came to this realization as I sat in a hospital bed recovering from an autoimmune disease that tried to kill me a couple of years ago. I didn’t understand affliction well. Or at all, really. Affliction was not even ... Read More about The Echo of My Days
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Walk With Me: I
I watched the sunlight beam a million rays on her dark curls, the cool breeze of winter’s end swirling around us. She held my hand and looked up at me with big brown eyes, a questioning look on her face. Inside? She seemed to ask. “Yes my, love, we are going inside.” I ached to pick her up and ... Read More about Walk With Me: I
Walk With Me: II
Screams echo all around me as I lunge from the bed. Micah is in a full fit of crying and Piper is wailing in the darkness. In the house I rent, the floor creaks where I’ve worn a path over it the last two months. I rush to pick up Micah and console him as I carry him quickly beside of Piper’s ... Read More about Walk With Me: II
Walk With Me: III
Every adoption starts with a loss. I know this now, but I admit it took a long time for me to grow in that understanding. I still wanted what I wanted. Her brown eyes peered up at me, dark ringlets around her face. Her eighteen-month-old chubby fingers reached for my hand as we stood side by ... Read More about Walk With Me: III
Walk With Me: IV
Months passed. I felt lost. Almost like a zombie with no direction, no purpose. I grieved heavily and I said no to every placement offered after that. I felt like a physical piece of my soul had been torn off and taken to West 3rd Street with Piper and Micah. Brittany invited me to see ... Read More about Walk With Me: IV
