I'm ELOPING!!!
A few people have heard me mention this before (and probably thought I was kidding around as usual) but I'm happy to announce that I am ACTUALLY ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY ELOPING! It has always been a mini...
View ArticleThe State of Disunion
How am I feeling? This is a question I haven't bothered to ask myself in a while. Ok, I've asked, but I haven't answered it necessarily. And of course, the standard answer goes for anyone else who...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of a Miracle
God did something for me recently and, unlike most times when I grab whatever it is and yell my thanks as I run out the door, I actually took time to think about it. What is even more amazing than the...
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On Monday, I caused quite a bit of pandemonium among my family and friends. No, I did not announce that I am finally bringing home the husband they have all been waiting for (yet). That would have been...
View ArticleSilent Treatment
God and I are not really on speaking terms right now. And it is His fault. Let's just say He made me a promise, and I was 100% sure, and now I am disappointed. More than that, I am a little...
View ArticleSilent Reminders
This post is way more than overdue... Almost immediately after I wrote my last post, I got the answers I didn't even know I was looking for. The first thing I realized was that it is not my...
View ArticleGreen Grass Envy
Have you ever felt like life was passing you by? Like you were watching everyone else doing laps in the fast lane while you slowly puttered along in your lane - the not fast lane... I was a little...
View ArticleIs This Thing On?
Yes! Yes it is!! For months (exactly 18 months and 9 days) I have missed writing and sharing with you all (if you are still here). Have I been writing? Yes, a whole lot. But for some reason it has been...
View ArticleMarried Exes
As much as I avoid it, it is inevitable that I am part of at least one relationship/marriage talk every week. When girlfriends - and guy friends - get together, we talk about old and new relationships,...
View ArticleTell God... I haven't Given Up (On Him)
If you asked me a few months ago, I would say I had been an adult for a while now and was probably getting really good at it, thank you very much. Plus, this summer, I will be celebrating 21 years of...
View ArticleShimmer
It has been brought to my attention that I have not been writing. I would like to offer a firm rebuttal that I have in fact been writing, a lot, but nothing that I am at liberty to share. So let's...
View ArticleClosureIsADirtyWord
All I could think was “whyareyoudoingthistome now?” He stood there pouring his heart out and saying all the things I always thought I wanted to hear. Only. He was not saying those things for me. I see...
View ArticleComplicated
You won’t have ‘Forever’ with everyone,but you always have Today What’s the difference between looking back on a life of wasted love and hating it, or counting every encounter in the past as a golden...
View ArticleLocked Out
Something about those eyes looking back at me. They say everything, and still nothing at all. So what are you doing here? So many places I try hard not to go. Is this real? Are we us? Should I stay?...
View ArticleAwakening
Eerie. Quiet. Tranquil. A world forever changed. Did we truly conquer you? Lands trimmed by necessity; Shaped for life, for being; Dimmed, renewed, blue. Hearts awake, again; One heart torched to...
View ArticleOur Family Wedding I: Bride [re]
Something Blue is really really tight...I wiggle a little as the elastic band of the pale blue garter digs into my left thigh. Serves me right for letting my jealous little sister pick out my wedding...
View ArticleOur Family Wedding II: Groom
Once upon a time I had given up hope that good things could happen to me…Really good things.But as the doors of the chapel open up to let in the radiant sun and her, I realize that everything I want is...
View ArticleOur Family Wedding III: Best Man
Weddings.The air is steaming with the sweet aroma of desperate women. I don’t know what it is about happy weddings that creates sad, lonely, ready-for-anything women. They are everywhere, and they are...
View ArticleOur Family Wedding IV: Mother of the Bride
Fifty-Five Years Old and still as dumb as the day I got here.Every day since I have had breasts, I have gotten myself into one kind of trouble or another. And it always comes back to bite me right...
View ArticleOur Family Wedding V: Father of the Groom
Nine Hours Before I have to be on a plane to Mexico. Six hours ago, I should have been in a meeting with the team in Canada. Oil in Canada will not wait for my son's wedding.My Son. I could not control...
View ArticleOur Family Wedding VI: Velda
There is Nothing I Love better than the sound of silence.As the preacher pauses dramatically at that unnecessary part of the wedding service, I can feel the nervous energy rise to a crescendo in the...
View ArticleIsaiah
I woke up the other day thinking about him. The funny thing is I’ve never met him. No one has. A few years ago in January after a women’s meeting at church, our meeting coordinator asked a few of us...
View ArticleOur Family Wedding VII: Strangers at the Wedding
Previously: Our Family Wedding VI (Velda)“I Do.” Two words, and you change the lives of everyone in a room, even if you don’t know them. If looks could kill… but there’s no going back now. You’re here...
View ArticleOur Family Wedding VIII: All in The Family
Encore. I love stories. Words. The way perspectives can be completely changed with just a well-placed word or nudged with a subtle suggestion here and there. There’s nothing like it. I really love...
View ArticleA Not So Presidential Debate
Confession: I have never been eligible to vote in an election.Crazy, right?When I lived in Nigeria, I was too young to be eligible, and my adult life has been mostly spent in one of the hardest places...
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