Posts Tagged ‘depression’

Every Memory

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

I’ve been thinking about the rather depressing turn my blog has taken over the last few weeks. It’s not really me. I don’t mope around all day. I’m actually pretty hyper! I have ADD, but I like to call myself vivacious and creative.  Euphemisms for sloppy and disorganized are always fun. In fact, usually my [...]

Cut

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Today is “To Write Love on Her Arms” Day. While I never had a habit of cutting, I did do it once.
It wasn’t for the reasons chronic cutters cut. After a particularly bad week at the church, where Lorraine asked me for the twentieth time why I wasn’t in choir, and the deacons tore into [...]

So Many!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

I confess some sadness here. Trying to dig into my brain to find some of the more humorous memories to share, I started looking through other pastor’s wives’ blogs, hoping something they said would jog my memory.
Instead, I found the common theme: depression.
It makes me so sad! I don’t even know how to explain it [...]

Left Behind

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I am not sorry I left everything behind. The ministry, the conservatism, the husband. I was not particularly happy in that life. Yet, it was all I knew. It was so scary to pack up and move out, defying everything I had been taught and the culture in which I lived. I lost everything, even [...]