When we are little, we want to be big. As children we wanted to imitate our parents, carry Daddy’s briefcase, crunch numbers on the ten-key or step into Mommy’s heals adorned in her finest costume jewelry. And if you were anything like me, click away on the adding machine with a fresh pair of bright…
The small window we leave open for others to see our lives through can often leave hidden the vast rooms of countless concealed sorrows and struggles we manage in secret each day. Not with deception, or intent to be guilely cunning we bury our underlying pains. We simply and truthfully present the momentary strength that…
Imagine for a moment that we are in a lifeboat. My parents navigated to the lifeboat while I was very young. They brought me in with them before I ever had to struggle on my own. You found the ladder draped off the side of the vessel. It was your neighbor who reached into the…
Don’t worry – you’re not the hero of your own story. Wait, what? Are you trying to tell me that I am not the heroine of this saga – the one I have already been living out? This one, the one I breath in and out each day? Is it your suggestion that the tale…
Fifteen months ago, I lost my only child. Well, that is not entirely true. I know where she is. However, she is gone, nonetheless. My daughter Lily Kelly, fifteen and budding with promise. Gone. In a single exhale. One cannot project their last breath, the final moment here on earth. It comes as a surprise….
Interview with Faith Zember: October 23, 2019 Ginger Beggs – Vision Radio 105.1 FM Atlanta, GA