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I Am The Villain: A Story About the Friend I Destroyed If you know me in real life, you know about Karen and Albert. I wrote about that story on this blog—about how I was the villain, how I didn’t stand up for myself when it mattered, how that lesson has stuck with me ever Read more
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What is a Mother Without Children? The museum opens at dawn, though you won’t arrive until much later. I am here in the quiet blue light, walking through galleries I have spent decades curating. My footsteps echo differently in each room, and I know them all by heart—the hollow ring in the Hall of Might-Have-Beens, Read more
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When Your Gut Knows What Your Heart Won’t Accept Sometimes the most devastating betrayals come not from enemies, but from the people who convince you they’re your closest allies. I was sitting in that dimly lit restaurant, watching Eugenia’s mouth move as she laid out evidence with receipts and screenshots, when I realized I’d been Read more
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The Journey to Peace “Though He slay me, yet I will trust in Him.” – Job 13:15 Chapter 4: The Great Surrender When everything false is finally stripped away When Tim left, it wasn’t just another heartbreak—it was the final blow that sent me crashing back into nothingness. Everything I thought I had rebuilt, every Read more
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Prologue: Letters of Gratitude to My Past “Sometimes the most painful detours become the most sacred destinations.” There are stories we tell ourselves about our past—narratives that cast certain people as villains and certain circumstances as tragedies. But time has a way of rewriting those stories, of revealing the hidden blueprints that were being drawn Read more
Steadfast Sanity 