A Note on Grace and Loss …

’ve been thinking about how easy it is to be unbending when someone’s brokenness hurts you, and how much harder it can be to give grace.

Sabbatical, Memoir Writing Class Week Six: What if it’s RIGHT NOW?

“T-eeee! Come downstairs! We’re going to head out and get some Dairy Queen!” My nine-year-old ears perked, and I yanked my ample, olive-tinted, Mediterranean nose out of my shiny new paperback: Blubber, by Judy Blume. Dairy Queen! Today? Wow, it wasn’t even my birthday! I scrambled downstairs, pulling my thigh-length, neon pink sweatshirt down, and…

Sabbatical, Memoir Writing Class Prompt #1: West Skyline Drive

I slipped into my neon yellow and white Columbia double-layered jacket, stretched see-through-thin black gloves over my pink-laquered fingernails, and tucked my chemically curly hair under a black fleece hat – knowing the latter would be on just long enough to get out of sight of my mother – and opened the door to meet…

Sabbatical, Day 79: I vs. E, and the War Within Me …

Just a couple of weeks into my freshman year, the Meyers-Briggs’ personality test was handed out to me and 200 of my closest friends in Intro to Psychology, which was housed in the auditorium-style, mauve-painted Bohannon 90.