Theryssa
Theryssa was born and raised in Collierville, TN, but is now a bona fide East Memphis resident, original hardwood and all. After graduating from The University of Memphis way back in the nineteen hundreds, she journeyed to Fort Worth, Texas for graduate school and snagged herself a Texas boy. Two kids (Samuel and Kate) and 15 years later, they all moved to Memphis. When she’s not homeschooling kids, running shuttles to basketball practice, and making dinners no one will eat, she can be found playing the oldies on her ukulele, fostering dogs, and picking up “junk” off the curb.
Bringing My Marriage Back to Life
A little over a year ago, my husband and I came to a crossroad in our relationship. We had to make the choice to begin to put each other first before EVERYTHING or to...
Fill your Kids with Good
Kids today can be so mean. It seems like every day I hear of another child being bullied or mistreated by their peers. Now, I'm not saying kids weren't hateful when I was a...
Leave the Mom Alone
I need y'all to understand something. I love my husband's kids. I do. I mean, I'm their mom in that I birthed them, but sometimes they're his. Like when they've spent the entire day...
Cancer Tried to Take my Husband
Sometimes things happen in my life, and I look back and think, "Did that really happen? Did I imagine that?" Most of the events of 2018 live in that sort of hazy, yet fully...
Waiting To Stand
I can remember it like yesterday. Sitting in church on Mother's Day as all the other mommies stood while the church clapped for them in acknowledgment of their motherhood. Sitting. For three years I...
Electronics-free Dining
Raise your hand if you’ve ever sat down in a restaurant only to look around and find all the tables around you filled with people of all ages with some sort of device shoved...
Two are Better Than One
Mental health is a hot topic right now. Advocates are working hard to remove the stigma of depression and anxiety. As a person who struggles with both, I consider myself an advocate. I'm a...
No Birthday Gifts = The Gift of Giving
Let's talk about birthdays, shall we? I loooooooove birthdays. My mom made SUCH a big deal out of birthdays, and it always was so special for us all. At our house, birthdays are a month-long...
Depression; so depressing.
Today was rough.
I mean dark dark dark.
We came home from a trip and I felt it creeping in on Monday. Blew it off as “tired” from too much fun in the Texas heat —...
I Had a Home Birth…on Purpose
When I was pregnant with my son, I decided a birth center birth with a midwife was the way to go. But Samuel had other plans. Little bugger didn’t want to come out, so...