Has God sent a stranger’s kindness to you at just the right time?
God sent me a mysterious person at a critical moment when I was a depressed teen in the fall of 1994.
Did you ever receive a word of encouragement that shaped your future? As a child, I received words of encouragement from my teachers that helped shape my future as a writer.
On July 30, 2016, I reached a writing milestone.
I finished writing my first manuscript, my memoir titled “Heart in a Drawer: My Story as a Child of Divorce.”
Our whole class stood in the hallway to view a critique
the first day of our final semester
and when you took your normal place beside me
I cut away to the far corner.
Confusion crossed your face
but you didn’t follow me.
Your conversation that spring semester
warmed me like the bright sun
on winter afternoons.
Marriage blindsided me
with its onion peels
petty arguments
and unpaid bills.