While I was driving home from work, I noticed something quite feathery on my windshield; I thought maybe a butterfly had gotten stuck on my wipers.  When I got home, I found this little bebe quivering all in a fright:

Seriously, I got all teary.  I mean nasty bugs on the windshield is one thing, but [...]

I cannot quite convey how *thrilled* I am to announce the birth of a new blog: In the Words of Womyn.  You can read all about the vision of this new blog and what inspired me to start it here.  This blog serves as a kind of virtual open mic for womyn to give sound [...]

Did you ever have a penpal?  I remember having several at various points throughout my elementary school career.  We were paired up with kids from around the world and we exchanged letters.
Boy was it exciting to get those tell-tale red and blue boardered international mail envelopes with such exotic stamps.  There was such thrill and [...]

…in 2010.
2010 always seems like one of those fake movie years, like some random future date at which we will never arrive.  Welp, here we are.
I could go on with some story about why I abandoned my dear Front Porch visitors, but I’ll save you the tales and I’ll hope that you forgive my absence [...]

I came up with this title earlier today and the alliteration was just so delicious I had to figure out a post to go with it!
I was thinking today about how some of the absolute most wonderful things and people in my life have come out of entirely random situations.  Very often at the outset [...]

As I have embarked on and continued along this journey of becoming a mental health professional, I have heard such varying misconceptions of what I and my colleagues do.
Many people wonder how–being “so young and single”–I could possibly help older adults, couples, parents, etc with their problems.  I think it is interesting that most people [...]

I was talking with a friend recently and when asked, “How are you?” I proceeded to gush about my recent woes–about all the stress I’ve been undergoing at work, how exhausted I am, how my back pain has flared up, how I have been on this dry spell from writing, whah whah whah whah (you [...]

I’m a strong woman.  I can carry, push, haul and schlep stuff with the best of ‘em;  I can support myself financially;  I have a sense of who I am, where I came from, what I like,  where I hope to go; and I can hoist myself up by my bootstraps when the going gets [...]

There is a time for everything
And a season for every activity under heaven
A time to be born; a time to die
A time to plant; a time to uproot
A time to kill; a time to heal
A time to tear down; a time to build up
A time to weep; a time to laugh
A time to mourn; a [...]

Tonight I overheard a conversation some people were having about the metrosexual male.  A man was asking a woman if she thought she could ever date guy who was a metrosexual.   The woman answered that she guessed it would depend on how extreme the guy was.  By this point I had joined the conversation so [...]