Earlier this week I shared with you something that I had previously revealed only to two other people: my therapist and my husband. It’s a scary, scary thing to not only admit to our shortcomings, but to put them out there for the entire world to see. Scary. SCARY. SCARY! What I can tell you, though, is that I … Read More
The Scent of Rape, A Digging for the Light Excerpt
I recently wrote (Not) God’s Plan, God’s Will, or Divine Intervention in response to Richard Mourdock’s statement that pregnancy from rape was part of God’s plan. I talk about the rape in Digging for the Light. Below is an excerpt from that work, which is looking for an agent and a publishing home… Pass it along. J * * * … Read More
Digging for the Light Manuscript & Excerpts
What can we do when we are buried alive with grief and suffering? Dig for the Light. The author’s deepest, darkest living hell began: Seven years after her first child died unexpectedly; six years after the first miscarriage; three-and-a-half years after the second miscarriage; thirteen months after a psychiatric hospitalization for severe depression; six weeks before her third living child … Read More