May is Mental Health awareness month. The best way I can talk to you about Mental Health is the best way I learned it. Think of it as Physical Health. There are people from one end to the other on the physical health spectrum and the same for mental health. …
(Part one is here and Part two is here. This is a randomly appearing series on the different church denominations that have influenced my faith journey.) One denomination I have a very cursory, but important association with is Catholic. In my high school years in Texas, we lived across the …
Sitting at the breakfast table my son and I were talking over something (the topic is lost in the horror to come momentarily) and it was not the outcome he wanted and he said, “Shit.” This is one of the problems of single parenting. I don’t have another parent to …
As my life roles shifted this past year, I kind of stumbled. I agree with the premise that we are children of God and our value lies in the Creator of the Universe seeing fit to make me (and you). But I don’t know that I live it. I think I …
I did this part one post a long time ago. As I mentioned, I have have experienced quite a few denominations. That first post was on one of the dominant ones: LDS. My parents met and married in an LDS church and I have a lot of family who belong to …
I haven’t written about my divorce or the related emotions in a while, so I thought I’d give a sort of update. It’s still not official and it is striking how final something can feel without any paperwork. But the paperwork was served this week and I was fine. And …