My son Brandon was around six years old the night he had his first seizure. We had just moved to Austin, Texas. My husband, Steve, had flown back to California to pick up one of our vehicles, and was making an all-night cross-country drive home. Our daughter, Kayla, then four years old, had asked Brandon [...]
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True Love is Real
When I was 4 my parents separated, and I lived the next 6 years with my dad. I would visit my mom along with my three sisters every Saturday. When I would watch as my mother drank and went from abusive boyfriend to boyfriend. I watched when I was 7 as my mother lost a [...]
Daughter’s Fight Against Cancer
My beautiful daughter, Jennifer, born October 6, 1986, died 22 years, 5 months and 3 days later on March 9, 2009. My heart broke, rendered into a million shattered pieces. It was a day I had dreaded for so long and prayed I would avoid. It was a day I saw coming, prepared and braced [...]
Wanting Relief and Freedom
I know its hard to believe for me to be writing this, I really want to know when is this weight and these hardships going to be taken off my shoulders. I am struggling really bad right now to where I am having to seek counseling at church. I just want answers and need help [...]
Healing
When my son was killed in the driveway of his rented house in Raleigh, NC in 2002, we asked for leniency for a girl we’d never known. The judge gave her an extremely thoughtful, meaningful sentence thus providing healing for both families. A friendship was born then between her and her mother and myself. In [...]
Teen Mom
Well my mom left me, my brother & my dad alone when we were babies. I was always angry about the situation and for some reason took it out on my dad. I felt like my dad & brother shared a bond that I didn’t have with anyone. My poor dad works 12 hour shifts [...]
Illegitimate
In second grade I heard the word “illegitimate” and learned that it meant someone that had no father. And I thought I was “illegitimate.” I was too young to understand what the word really meant. I wasn’t really illegitimate because my parents were married when I was conceived but my father had left us before [...]
Bullied
During my middle school and high school career, people would make fun of me in my classes just because I was different from them because I learning disabilities and mild CP. Everyday up until the day I graduated I felt like there was no reason for me to live. But then during my junior year [...]
From Razor Blades to Bible Believer
Hello, The girl that stands before you today typing this is not the same girl that many know me as. 5 years ago is when it all started. I was in the 7th grade and the life I knew was turned upside down and the realities of life hit me hard. The sheltering I once [...]
He Saw My Tears
Let’s see….where to start, where to start….? Ah here we go. The childhood years. I was a pretty normal kid for the most part. Well as normal as growing up in the 90′s allows for. Probably the most abnormal thing about me was my IQ. By the time I was in Kindergarten (and I started at [...]
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