For almost a decade now, I have been believing a lie. That God did not stay with me. Saint Padre Pio used to pray, “stay with me, Lord,...

[Except from upcoming book, due late fall.] The phone rings. He sits in the black leather chair in the downstairs of his house, the ...

It was pouring rain. We ran into the church, my mom and me, my dress clinging to my ankles, my shoes filling with water as I side...

I do not love him anymore. So I have peace. But Levi does. Levi will never have the peace that I can have. So mine is interrupted by his...

On her eighth birthday, her father had a heart attack. She remembers the sun shining. A perfect August day. Her black hair was cut short...

I dreamt of my father sitting by the water. He was on a front porch, a long wrap around chestnut colored porch with white railings. He...

It is so easy to be pulled into the aloneness. That part of our mind that is dark, that swims with the unknown and has doubt as a...

Always set the pace first, that’s what my dad would say. It is 5am on a cold February morning. He is in running pants and a sweatshirt,...

The man with the old chocolate lab never walks around our neighborhood anymore. I was driving home from Urgent Care, the lump in my...