The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room

Waiting rooms are the worst. They have the unique ability to actively suck the life out of you even though you are doing nothing but sitting and waiting. The TV options are usually limited and mindless. And if you must go to the DMV, you feel as if you will never escape the dull confines [...]

Faith In The Small Things

Last Saturday, I had a frustrating morning. A package that should have been delivered on Friday apparently was “undeliverable” on Saturday. I spent an hour and thirty-seven minutes (I checked my call log) on hold with the US Postal Service before giving up and heading to the post office where the package had arrived that [...]

Is It Possible To Overcome Depression? Victory Is Possible!

Is It Possible To Overcome Depression? Victory Is Possible!

Is it possible to overcome depression? Depression. Suicide. I know what you’re thinking – just another post about mental illness after a rash of high profile suicides. But here’s the thing – here is me being completely open and vulnerable with you: I have suffered from depression on and off for most of my life. [...]

Epiphany at 38,000

Epiphany at 38,000

The day before Jessica posted Beneath the Ribbons and Bows about being “enough,” I was reading a book called The War of Art by Steven Pressfield on a flight to Chicago and had a bit of an epiphany at 38,000 feet. The very next day, I read Beneath the Ribbons and Bows and shared the [...]