by Emily Wierenga | Dec 18, 2013 | depression, fear, grace, imperfect prose, Kimberlee Conway Ireton, postpartum
Today’s post is by my friend, Kimberlee Conway Ireton… and she’s giving away her new memoir, too! Please welcome her.via reckless youth on instagramThe darkest week of the year. The darkest week of my life. Looking at me, you’d never have thought it... by Emily Wierenga | Nov 20, 2013 | falling in love, heartache, imperfect prose, love, meme, prodigal magazine, relationships, truth
The pastor is praying and the woman in the pew in front of me has an oxygen tank.She’s breathing in and out and it’s soothing, but also jarring, because you don’t realize how much you need oxygen until you stop being able to breathe.And I reckon the... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 30, 2013 | cancer, death, faith, funerals, imperfect prose, love, marriage, romance
My dad (left) with his older brother, Uncle Dennis, who passed away this week.It was spring and we’d just finished dinner.We were living in Blyth, a small theater town and Mum still sick with brain cancer. Uncle Dennis and Aunt Marion were over, and they’d...