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Adjusting to Life Overseas | When Did I Become Julia Child?
I love the movie Julie & Julia. Swallowed whole by life and her own inability to stick with anything, a young woman full of potential sets an unreasonable goal. She finishes, and of course, she becomes wildly successful. But that’s the icing on the cake. The real treasure in her story is that she found…
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Adjusting to Life Overseas | When Did I Become Julia Child?
I love the movie Julie & Julia. Swallowed whole by life and her own inability to stick with anything, a young woman full of potential sets an unreasonable goal. She finishes, and of course, she…
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I Didn’t Expect This
Here I sit. The lone sign of Christmas past draped softly over my legs. My feet finishing the semicolon of Cobalt’s husky curl. Light from the the lazy Mediterranean sun pours in through the windows.…
God in the Valley
It is hard to unravel the depth of grief I am carrying, the depth of grief my community is walking through. A family I love waits with hope and grief to see what God will…
Dear Mom, You Are NOT A Failure
Four short words marched their way across the synapses of my mind. Ricochetting like bullets across a battlefield, they attempted to destroy everything good and beautiful in their path. You are a failure. This sentence plagues…
My Journey From Grief To Grace After Losing Twins
Today is a complicated day. It began twenty-two years ago. ** Twenty-two years ago, I gave birth to Joshua David and William Scott Patton. Twenty-two years ago, I held Josh and Will in my arms. I…
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