“This is god's plan” I quite literally almost used my bare hands to kill multiple very sweet-natured and kind women at my late husband’s funeral as they made their way up the multi-hour line to me at calling hours and said the four words that made my skin crawl, “This is god’s plan”. They could …
Fall has always been my favorite season, I used to think it was about hayrides, carving pumpkins, and Halloween. As an adult I know what a transitional period of letting go this is, as a child my reverence for this time of year may have come from a need to be reminded that sometimes it's …
Tears streaming into my ears, down across the tops of my cheekbones. Shug. Shug. Shug. My heart pounding in my ears. Laying on my chest with my heart thumping into my mat and the sound not only of it beating, but the actual constricting and releasing filling my ears. "Let us out of …
When do you know your summer on the road has come to a close? When your car is stolen. So many things have changed. Two minutes after walking in from my morning meditation, my friend Gema who I'm staying with in Vancouver walked over to me in the kitchen as I'm pouring my coffee and …
Mitchell’s accident happened on Wednesday June 25, 2014. His body was recovered on July 7, 2014; what would have been his 26th birthday. Because his body was in West Virginia where the autopsy had to take place and we were having services in Ohio where we lived, we couldn’t have services until July 11, 2014. …
Maranda Saling 