Paralyzed with JOY!

Today marks the 15th anniversary of my car accident, which means I've been paralyzed for 15 years. 15 years is a long time! I'm cal...

Sometimes people say that they don't regret anything about their life. They don't regret any of the choices they've made, thing...

Yesterday in church we had a lesson about service that was really good. Here are a few points about service that I wanted to talk about on m...

I've been blogging since July of 2009 and I love it! At first I wasn't sure what I would write about and if anyone would read my blo...

I had a terrible night's sleep last night because I could not fall asleep!! Part of the reason was that I was in a lot of pain. When yo...

I've recently lost several people who are very important to me. I'm not sure what the expression "parting is such sweet sorrow...

I keep seeing TV commercials for something called Smoke Assist, and the TV commercial seem so silly and weird that I had to look it up to se...

Facebook! This sounds weird, and a few years ago I would've never thought I would ever join Facebook, let alone admit I love it, but I d...

My family has started listening to Christmas music this past week and it's especially been fun to listen to my little nephews sing along...

I love Tyler Perry! I think he is such an awesome person. I recently saw an interview with him on Oprah, and it made me love him even more. ...

I have a funny story that I wanted to write about. This incident happened on Tuesday, June 18, 2002; the day before my 18th birthday. I'...

My younger sister Chandra and I went to the movies on Saturday afternoon and we saw the new Clint Eastwood movie Hereafter . Here is a brief...

It's finally election day! I've been waiting for this day for months so that I can finally get relief from all of the awful politica...

In the late 90's my mom started donating money to an organization called Paralyzed Veterans of America. They would send pretty address l...

I'm sure everyone has seen those jumbo bags of Halloween candy where you get a little of this and a little of that. In theory that's...

I saw a segment on The Early Show this morning called "How Close Is Too Close?" that I really appreciated. It was about boundaries...

In my last post I wrote about my sadness over not being a mother and knowing that I won't have that opportunity in this life. I also wr...

Now that I'm at the age where I would be having children if I were married sometimes it hurts to think about not being a mother. There...

I'm wondering if anyone out there is as discussed as I am with political commercials! First of all, politics are something that I really...

I recently mentioned that my sister Kristin and her family came to live with my mom and me earlier this month while her husband looks for a ...