Believing In God

I identify as a Christian. My husband is a Muslim. And somehow we are making it work. It's not perfect, but we are doing the best we can. At the end of the day, we rely on the simple fact that we both believe in "God." The ways in which we do so are different, …

The Silence of Complacency

Disclaimer: This post was started almost a year ago, but unfortunately is still wildly relevant. The post is political in nature, but was not meant to be a political debate. I was simply writing my feelings after an event last year. The unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies. Complacency. In the last few years America …

Giving Myself Time

Life takes time. It's an obvious statement, but runs deeper the more I think about it. Life is our time on Earth. But, it also takes time to truly live. It takes time to develop, to mature, to recover.... Time that I tend to underestimate. For example, Grief. When my dad died I grieved. Then …

I Made It All About Me

In response to "But, What About Me?" I'm a little late in writing this post -  I meant to do it the first week of May.  I've been busy, but I've also been putting it off. My excuse would be that I was trying to process the last month so that I could write a …

Knitting To Cast Off

This is mostly a personal post documenting my daily challenge from my "What About Me?" Post. 30 Days of Knitting  Day 1 kind of sucked. I started out strong from the night before, until I went to try the  purl stitch (which looked so simple) and kept twisting and adding on stitches. Agh Until hours …

Impressive Impressions

I'm always struck by how much it seems people put on an act for others. The masks and costumes we carefully put ourselves in every single day to impress the people around us. Makeup, plastic surgery, designer fashion, and the list continues. Yet, we crave authenticity. We desire clarity and are always searching for the …

Isolation

Isolation whether self-imposed or out of necessity is lonely. I'm a lonely person, but not a loner, and sometimes the loneliness is hard. I know that doesn't make sense except to say that I don't mind being alone. I'm usually rather introverted and reserved, so being alone is not a problem. Rather, it's the loneliness …

On The Average

"Don't compare yourself to others" is the sagely piece of advice passed from generation. "Be the best you you can be and don't worry about the rest," because that's all anyone can expect..."Life is not a competition..." but isn't it? How is it that we keep saying don't compare yourself to others when our entire …

Knitting In The First Stitches

I remember one day my mom pulled out a small ball of pink yarn and some little, blue plastic knitting needles. I'm sure she showed me a stitch or two, but I never remembered what she said, and I never tried it myself. The needles sat there simply collecting dust because I was afraid. That …

But, What About Me?

"The biggest commitment you must keep, is your commitment to yourself." -Neale Donald Walsch "Self - care is not selfish or self-indulgent. We cannot nurture others from a dry well. We need to take care of our own needs first, then we can give from our surplus, our abundance." -Jennifer Louden Commitment issues is a …