Dear God,thank you for loving me. Thank you for this day and the beautiful world I live in. Thank you for family and friends to play and share with. Thank you for my home- for clothes and food and a safe place to be.
Thank you for my church and for those who are teaching me. Dear God, help me do what you want me to do. Forgive me for when I do things wrong like when I hurt myself and hurt you. Make me be the best that I can be to everyone. In Jesus’s name. I pray. Amen.
My husband, Braden, insists butter belongs on the counter. “That’s how Grandma Selma did it,” he says. But seeing it melt into a shiny puddle in our…
friend Odessa, who immediately warned me to toss it. From then on, that butter dish felt like a tiny danger zone. Braden happily used it; I stuck…
My four-year-old daughter, Zariah, doesn’t walk through stores — she dances. Most people smile, but last week one woman frowned and muttered, “Your mom should teach you…
and by morning it had gone viral — thousands of likes, memes, and videos. But then I received a message with a photo of the woman. Her…
She grew up in a home where her mother had to choose every word carefully to avoid being beaten, and she too faced pushing, shoving, and frightening…
a Generation,” with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Born in Staten Island in 1980, she spent her early years moving from place to place…
