by jo | Jun 16, 2015 | Everyday Stories
photo credit: i’m not okay. via photopin (license) We were sitting in a smaller room in the back of the church and I had made fajitas for my volunteer staff of youth leaders for the middle school youth group I ran at the time. It was during the students’...
by jo | Mar 31, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
He must’ve been about 6 years old. His head full of blondish brown curls. He was tall, lanky, apparently even the “slim fit” pants would fall down because of his narrow width. I was a toddler, about three years old, with baby-fat chubby cheeks, big blue eyes, and...
by jo | Jan 7, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Myths & Cliches
“We need to talk,” she said to me in a serious yet conspiring tone. We walked with rushing feet to our personal conference room — the Children’s Church room at the back of the church where we’d hang out before church. We were two rambunctious 8-year-old girls who got...