This is one of those meals that sounds a little strange until you make it and then you wonder why you haven't been making it all along. Ground beef, a whole bunch of kale, salty olives, and chunks of feta all cooked together in one skillet. It's hearty, full of flavor, and an easy way to get a ridiculous amount of kale onto your plate without feeling like you're sitting there eating a bowl of kale. And if you're looking at 2 tablespoons of oregano thinking I've lost my mind...I haven't. It...

I don't talk about this part very often, but today it feels important. Sometimes I'm scared that the things that happened to me long before this chapter of my life are going to cost me something good in this one. Trauma is strange like that. You can know you're safe and still brace yourself. You can know you're loved and still wonder when that love is going to disappear. You can recognize that the person standing in front of you didn't cause the wounds you're carrying and still find yourself...

Being abandoned by someone she trusted with her whole heart and realizing that sometimes the person she thought was safe… wasn’t. Finding out she was lied to by someone who was really good at pretending to be someone they weren’t. Lying next to someone she once planned forever with and realizing the marriage is already over, even though neither of them has physically left yet. Learning just how lonely a relationship can be when she has to beg for the love, affection, and effort that should...