Welcome To North Fourth Street
Personal Reflections – Stories – Emotions – Healing
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A Letter to the Girl with Daddy Issues
Dear Broken Girl, You are chasing attention and affection in all the wrong places. Playing pretend because you think that’s as good as you can do. You think that you will never find a better man. You don’t respect yourself because you’ve been disrespected and disregarded. You’ll grow up not believing that love is really […]

Haunted Memories
I live in a town filled with ghosts. Constant visual representations of the past haunt me daily. A tiny town filled with too much history I can’t seem to escape. When I look out the window directly across the street sits a small old house, where the first man I ever loved lived years ago. […]

Negativity
Negativity I’m guilty of letting myself go THERE. Actually, if I’m really honest with myself I pretty much stay there… I kind of live in this negative headspace. –I am predisposed to it. –It’s what comes naturally. –I was raised by doomsday pessimistic people. It is in my DNA. Maybe back in the day, it […]

60% Defeat with a Dash of God Mixed In
As 2020 comes to a close I’ve been down on myself. Looking at my goals from this year and not really being able to cross anything off the list brings feelings of disappointment and failure. I know this year was hard for pretty much everyone on planet Earth so there is that. But in a […]

A 2020 Newsletter: A Personal Reflection of Personal Trials in 2020
I sat staring at the Christmas tree thinking about how soon, Christmas will be behind us. I’ve always been one to welcome a new year full of hope and potential, a clean new slate. My mind shifted to how right after Christmas at the beginning of the year, my sister and I like to go […]

The Second Time Around
It was 2001 when we met. I was a 19-year-old train wreck. I came crashing through your sister’s door where you lived. I came with a lot of baggage…like emotionally and literally. Bawling about my ex-boyfriend and how I had no home. You never judged. We occupied the same spaces; your calmness and genuine sweetness […]

On North 4th Street
Something about the way the sun comes through the trees always reminds me of her. Not so much that she was into nature as much as she was into beautiful things. She loved beautiful weather, beautiful music, and beautiful scenery. She would go on and on about it. Going outside was the way she broke […]

A Constant
You woke up and it started. The demands of the day. The world in a state of chaos over an election. Over a virus that won’t go away. You have bills that need to be paid. Things that need to be figured out.Relationships that need fixing. Decisions to be made. Before you know it you’re […]