February 2012
22 posts
bekaboo asked: I am a stranger, but I was moved by your story when I read Tre's account. Any one of us can have our loved ones snatched away at a moment's notice, and we never see it coming. I have lost five family members over the past several years, and nearly lost two others. But I would not have traded a moment with them to spare myself the grief. Love, when you find it, is a gift to be...
I have grown up more in the past 12 days, than I...
For you, I am thankful.
Your wisdom, your profession, your ability to ground me.
Thank you.
smashley asked: no details needed, but prayers are with you. You're amazing
I refuse to believe he's going to die on me...
and I will leave it at that.
I know he will die. I know time will be limited but I know God handed him directly to me.
So now, moving forward, I pray.
The White Elephant in the Room: Love + Expiration... →
whiteelephantintheroom:
I’m getting married, a girlfriend announces in her sweet-like-syrup drawl.
Congratulations! I gush. When? Who’s the guy?
Wedding is Wednesday, she replies. We only just met…last week.
Whoa.
There’s a good reason why it’s happening so fast, she adds. And why I’m calling you out of the…
Because Tre tells it better than I can. Because I don’t have the...
Yesterday, I found a place downtown.
This weekend…I move in.
Life has a funny way of working out.
I can officially walk to work….
I never would have imagined all of this would work out.
I never would have imagined some of the other doors that have opened for me either.
You get to a point where you can only share so much.
All I can say right now…is that my heart is one hundred percent content, full and happy.
Sometimes Opportunity Knocks Awkwardly...
When I received the knock at my door on Friday morning of last week I think my knees hit the floor before my mind could even begin to process what was being said to me.
Over the past few months I have worked hard renovating my town house unit. And when I say hard…I mean I’ve done every single thing that I can to get it the exact way in which I wanted to live.
Without going into full...
If you had the choice of living a life full of...
This question was recently posed to me.
Tomorrow is never a guarantee.
I thought on it, and it didn’t take me long at all…I want 10-15 years. I want 10 to 15 years of being all encompassed in an amazing love and life full of happiness and true living.
Nothing lasts forever. Ultimately our significant others will not be around whether our relationship or marriage lasts 25 years or...
I wrote my boss an email that I was feeling uneasy...
I explained that his words left me a little confused that I’d wanted to write since I was a small child and the concept of not having the ability was a little scary.
This note just hit my inbox…and it was exactly what I needed.
Samantha: Writing is building a house. It’s not magic. But you must learn what the tools are and how to use them just right and practice a lot and then...
On accepting that everything requires hard work...
Today, I must say, was one of the rougher days I’ve spent doing anything at all as far as work is concerned. Last week I worked an excessive amount of overtime, and this week I thought I had it all under control.
Then things changed and on the day of layout and organization I got hit with a cut back in the number of pages going to print based on our ad sales. 14. 14 pages…from our...
I have so many words...
and nothing to say.
It is weird to be in such an amazing life position (for the first time in a really long time) and have no words.
I’ve gone through a lot, I’ve drawn the short end of the stick multiple times lately, and I’ve kept quiet on what I believe to be a lot of unfair things. And I think it is that place where the positive karma comes from.
Years ago I would have...
January 2012
11 posts
In the thick of the woods...
As we were driving he was reciting poetry he wrote back in 1993, “a time when we’d drink bourbon and pretend to be poets,” he says.
It was the kiss of the sunset that caught my attention. He was right…the way the sun set over the Wadmalaw sky caused a pink glow, shaped perfectly like lips. The moss hung from the oaks and besides his words, all was quiet.
Except my mind.
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Not even going to pretend I'm not seriously proud...
This photo was snapped last night before an event for work…which is going swimmingly, by the way…I don’t think I could fall in love with anything more than I have fallen for my job.
Except for my planned/unplanned weight loss. I mean, obviously I’ve wanted to lose weight since I was placed on a medication that made me gain excessive weight. BUT, I wasn’t exactly...
The Call, The Acceptance, The New Place to lay my...
Yesterday, I traveled to visit my friend and her brand new baby girl. It was so great to spend time visiting, catching up, and watching her in her new element…being a mom. As I sat and chatted with her I was thinking of all of the things I wanted to do with myself this year…be more selfish, take time for me, stop focusing my efforts and energy in the wrong places.
And it hit me like...
The cold side of the bed...
For years I have lived with an indescribable fear of the “cold side of the bed.” The side that sits empty, untouched…and in my case typically stacked to the hilt with decorative pillows and a fluffy white dog.
Fear of the cold side of the bed.
I never really liked being alone, so I instead allowed myself to be the girl that took the 12AM phone call. The call that meant he was...
December 2011
7 posts
Barely Breathing
You know those life points where you have to instruct yourself to do everything.
Wake up, inhale, exhale, eat something, take a shower, put on clothes, get out, stop and smell the roses. DO SOMETHING. Anything? inhale, exhale. Sleep?
I’ve been in a constant state of barely breathing. hardly eating. then binge eating. then feeling guilty. then feeling lost. then feeling confused. If the...
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Today, I vowed to run 500 miles by 12/12/12. →
You should pledge a few miles too.
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'Tis the Season...
So, in the spirit of packing up and moving out things have been given away, and even sold. I play hardball when I put something on Craigslist. I always do the whole “or best offer” thing, but in my mind the best offer is always my asking price. So when people ask me “what’s the best offer you’ll accept” I usually, in the spirit of being a negotiator...
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