When you have a chronic health condition, symptoms can pop up seemingly out of nowhere, leaving you incapacitated for days, weeks, or...

It’s mid-November and you can feel the buzz of premature Christmas cheer in the air. I know that for some, November first marks the...

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Sometimes I feel just so terribly inadequate. The list of things I should be or could be doing clangs around my mind, begging for...

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There’s a line in the movie "Ms. Congeniality" that always makes me laugh. It’s when beauty pageant contestant Ms. Rhode Island is asked...

This morning, I woke up feeling unsettled. As I read about the smoky air from Canadian wildfires spreading an orange haze over New York...

Have you ever been going through a hard time and had someone try to console you with the platitude "God will never give you more than you...

On Valentines Day 2021, I was a wreck. Only a week before, I had just ended a serious relationship to a man I was planning to marry. I...

Growing up in the church, I had heard a fair amount of teaching on the difference between joy and happiness. Happiness, I was told, is...