How My Fear Became Faith
Fear was my father’s favorite game and one I learned to play at four years old.
With gleaming green eyes and a wicked sense of humor, my father was a force. His family had always been …
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I Owe You an Apology
Actually, I owe you two. Shall we begin?
(1) Please forgive me for being MIA for the past few several months. As you might remember, I am currently working on getting my master’s and, as it …
Read More →deep earthy honey-soaked butterscotchy royal autumn gold
Gold is my favorite color. And before all you ladies say AMEN, I don’t mean jewelry-gold (although that is quite nice and I am certainly not opposed to it). I also don’t mean sunshine or …
Read More →a very good place to start
Before I repost some of my other favorite pieces, it makes sense to first retell the story of how this journey as The Jesus Gypsy began. It is, quite frankly, my very favorite story to …
Read More →once upon a time
HOWDY STRANGER!!! Hope you are well. I was thinking about you this morning and deeply missing the good ol’ days when I got to use my words for CREATING and CONNECTING instead of GRADING and …
Read More →on Willie Nelson, Puppy Dogs, and the Holy Spirit
I am essentially an expert emotional escape artist. I am also a professional performer.
“PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN,” my life has shouted through the years.
We moved around like gypsies growing up …
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DID YOU KNOW that Texas ranks 2nd nationally for human trafficking and approximately HALF of the known cases include the sexual exploitation of children? Shocking, isn’t it? I know I was floored. I was …
Read More →that time I was accidentally creepy
I once used salsa to try to bribe a girl into being my friend.
No, this wasn’t some 4th grade will you sit with me at the lunch table kind of thing. But it was a I …
Read More →the rest of the story
I have forever found stories fascinating and always wanted to dig deeper into people’s lives and really “get them.” Perhaps that is why my degree is in Psychology (or was that more because I didn’t quite …
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I swear I won’t cry/make you cry in this post. I MEAN… WOW– I think there’s been enough of all that for awhile. So thanks for crying alongside me a couple weeks ago about our sweet puppy dog (if …
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