I’m struggling with where to start. I am grateful that my face-to-face encounters each day contain laughter and joy, compassion for struggles and sorrow, and healing for hurt. The words I read most days rarely, if ever, contain these attributes. It seems the majority of them contain anger. Whether it is the words…
“To live without hope is to cease to live” –Fyodor Dostoevsky I’ve been thinking about the word “hope” a lot lately. It has 2 different meanings to me: a wish for something, and a lifeline. As a wish, it is to want something to happen. I hope I can make it through…
Welcome to Small Talk. This weekly column will provide opinionated pieces on every lifestyle topic imaginable, with particular emphasis on those that are trending now. I do my research, provide the facts, and give my opinion – you decide the rest. How do we know what is trending now? What should the phrase mean…