Who’s in control of the narrative here? At one point in my life I thought you could just write your life down or imagine it and as you work towards it it would all play out. But life isn’t like that. Life changes directions even when you do not plan it that way. I’ve seen […]
I have a very close friend and she was really struggling. She knows me better than almost anyone. My mood never changes, I never overreact, always smiling, content and excited about each day. “You’re not a normal person,” she would say. If she got upset sometimes she would take it out on me, but I […]
Forgiveness… Isn’t that what we are all set out here to practice? Think about it in your own life. Do you have friendships that are broken for one reason or another? Is it just one thing or one event that led that friendship to fall apart? Do you ever find yourself thinking about that friend […]
I died and lived to tell about it. You’ve heard about the past. Most of you probably know my story at this point. Life was interesting before. It was almost too interesting. It was way too crazy and way too out of hand. I was definitely living, but I most definitely was not living how […]
There is very little that scares me and I will even go to say that I am not even afraid of death. Why? Because I am truly happy in all aspects of life. That is something I read that happy people are not afraid of is death. When I read this, I questioned myself if […]
DIVINE INTERVENTION: a term used for a miracle caused by God’s active involvement in the human world Might sound crazy to some, but I have felt. I am certain of it and to try to describe the feeling is almost impossible. He was with me that snowy night in January 2011 and I will […]
Imagine waking up in the morning and being unable to move to get yourself out of bed just waiting for someone to come in that door to get you up. Your patience is tested. It is terrifying at first. Just the feeling of being trapped is something that is hard to get over. Every day […]
The scariest story I ever heard growing up was from my dad. It was about the car accident that left him paralyzed. I couldn’t fathom what that would feel like not to be able to move. I also never once thought for a second that it would happen to me. It was never something I […]
This is a speech that I presented at the Community Housing Summit last week. The Community Housing Summit was a statewide conference that was put on to bring people together that work with developmentally disabled individuals to educate them about accessible housing and allow everyone to work together to help provide solutions to the disability […]
When you live in a small residential community like I do (don’t get me wrong, I love where I live) or go to a small school, live in a small town, etc., noise is going to go around especially fast, but it also happens everywhere. Society, especially these days, knows (or at least they think […]