In Loving Memory

For Bob Borchers and his strong family,You’re all held in our love, thoughts, and prayers. Do not grieve for me, for now I am free I’m following the path God laid for me. I saw His face, I heard His call, I took his hand and left it all. I could not stay another day […]

Let It Begin

There are no doubts in my mind that within a month or so, I will wonder what my old life was like. “Old life,” meaning, a life without a child. I hear parents say this all the time. My brother, with four children of his own, laughs in my face when I say two words: […]

The Pregnant Process of Writing

I’m in the last few weeks of my pregnancy and I wish I could write like I used to. I’ve heard some women measure the differences pregnancy has made in their lives by their physical bodies, the hours of sleep they used to get, how their emotions change. One of the biggest changes for me […]

The Last Weeks of Pregnancy

I wish there was some sensible and orderly manner to communicate the 9 billion things going through my brain as of late. It’s not a frenzy of thought, it’s just there are SO many things Nick and I are doing and trying to accomplish that it feels almost limiting to try and communicate even a […]