September 7, 2010

Love Burns Brighter

I don’t get political here often. Or ever.

A small church in Gainesville is planning to burn the Quran on 9/11. You can read about it here if you haven’t already seen it on the news.

I lived in Gainesville for six years. I consider them the most formative six years of my life. [...]

August 18, 2010

We Stay. Home.

In the summer of 2005, when hurricane season began, I filled a big Tupperware container with batteries and flashlights and some canned goods and Band-Aids and whatever else I thought might help us in an unimaginably bad situation.

That August, my husband and I had only been in our first home for four months. [...]

June 7, 2010

One Step at a Time

The backstory. Cancer has shadowed my life for as long as I can remember. As a nervous, twitchy sort of girl, I started checking my moles for skin cancer by the time I was in second grade. Every ache had me convinced I had some horrible ailment. Later in elementary school, my Nana developed [...]