I’m a literal person. I struggle to enjoy stories with unrealistic, abstract concepts like time travel or multiple dimensions. I suppose I like everything, even my entertainment, to be neat and tidy and linear. (This is probably why I love Disney movies so much.) As soon as I was old enough to understand that God…
This is the real story of Love of Dixie. This blog began as a journal of my mother’s early onset Alzheimer’s disease. The reality behind Love of Dixie This blog has now sold thousands of Texas Strong t-shirts and published a children’s book. But, back then, it was not glamorous or funny or popular or…
“It [love] … always hopes, always perseveres.” (1 Corinthians 13:7 NIV) We have our first kiss. We fall in love. We say our vows. And then, we find out that all that “in sickness and in health, ‘til death do us part” stuff is for real. We fight depression and “man” colds, job losses and…
It seems like I’ve spent the last 10+ years in a perpetual state of grief and caregiving, coming up for air just briefly enough to survive and then going back under again. When I was offered an opportunity to review an advanced screening of To Joey, With Love, I knew basically what I was getting…
This week’s “Permission to Grow” guest post comes from Kelly Nickerson. Kelly is a mother to two kids on Earth and four in Heaven. The Good Grief Girl teaches us not to “get over” our losses but, instead, to grow from them. Permission to Grow Joy in the Mourning I kept his room the same for…
