Nonfiction Piece Published
When my first byline was published, it was in the Chattanooga Times prior to its merging with the Chattanooga Free Press, and I was sixteen years old. I knew I ...
Tag: adoption
Signs of Life Day Twenty-Two
In October 2000, a 14-year-old girl who’d concealed her pregnancy secretly gave birth and placed the newborn in a shed. The baby died from severe dehydrat...
Setting up shop on Bloglovin
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I’ve never been a big promoter of this blog outside of friends and family members, but something tells me now is a good time...
Throwback to when we met Jackson
To say we had little time to prepare for Jackson’s arrival would be an understatement. We found out about his impending birth and potential adoption on Sa...
Blog Challenge Day 24: A difficult time
Describe a difficult time in my life. By far, to date, the most troubling time in my life was at 23 and 24 years old. I was newly married and freshly off all fo...
A Mother’s Day Confession
It wasn’t that long ago when Mother’s Day was the worst day of the year for me – that miserable Sunday when the pastor stood proudly in the pu...