After two weeks of fighting demons and broken systems and anger and fear, this warrior woman is very, very weary. The battle seems to be subsiding and the enemy has not won. As the change comes, my body whispers "let go of the fight and just rest. And cry. And take...

Yesterday was the best day I've had in about 2 weeks. Hope is starting to feel like a realistic thing to hang onto again. Soon I'll find the time and mental space to write more, but for now, here's a little something that made me cry yesterday. Piglet sidled up to...

I'm trying to believe... - that there is reason for hope and that it won't always be snuffed out like it has been this week. - that this feeling that the whole world is resting on my shoulders will some day pass. - that the herculean effort that it takes to make...

I wish I could talk more honestly about what's going on, because I so badly need an outlet, but I can't for various reasons. That kind of writing will have to remain in my private journal. And yet I know that there are many of you who have learned to care about me...

There are things going on in my family right now that I can't blog about. Hard things. The kind of things that require of me that I dig for reserves of strength and patience and compassion I don't always believe I have. Bear with me during this silence. And if you are...

Yesterday Marcel was talking about how he needed to put together some Spring collages and/our video montages of photos to help inspire the students in the photography elective he's teaching at school. Maddie jumped up and said "I can help you Dad!" Shortly thereafter,...