by Callie | Jul 8, 2017 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, discouragement, encouragement, hope, Uncategorized
I brought my kids over to make “pigs in a blanket” at my grandparents’ this week. They played with giant bubbles, rode on my mom’s rocking horse from the 1950’s, and ran around the billiard table my grandpa keeps in the basement amongst items from a bygone era. On one...
by Callie | Jul 3, 2017 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, hope, Uncategorized
Friends. How are you doing? Let’s talk… Since I wrote my last post on discouragement, it seems I have let loose a little jackass in my brain who is running around, wreaking havoc on all hopes and aspirations. He’s finding every neural passageway identified...
by Callie | May 6, 2017 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, hope, parenting, weird
Tallulah is our four-year-old and if any of my children are going to use their hands to create, it will be her. I still draw stick figures, so, when she draws an eye with a pupil, iris, outer lid and eyelashes, I choke on my soup. It’s amazing! This tiny little...
by Callie | Apr 18, 2017 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, hope
Much to my children’s chagrin, we have been taking countless walks lately. Yesterday, we stepped outside our garage and were greeted by a host of tulips finally opening their orange, yellow, and red blooms. They all opened in one day. The day before everything was...
by Callie | Sep 5, 2014 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, encouragement, Grief, hope, suicide
I can’t write about anything else until I write about something that I don’t think is mine to write about. It is someone else’s story, many others’ stories, actually, and yet it has found an uncomfortable home inside of my thoughts and it will reside there, clogging...
