by Hailey Nichols | Apr 24, 2026 | Giving It Away
We are graduating our third little bird in 1 week. How can it be that 18 years have passed and the formative years have ended? How are the awkward days of middle school and the sometimes argumentative days of high school already behind us? You would think I would get...
by Hailey Nichols | Apr 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Loneliness creeps in at the most unexpected moments. Sometimes when I’m in a crowded room, I can feel completely unnoticed and unseen. In the busyness of life, when several days have passed between intimate conversations with a friend, I can feel isolated. It seems I...
by Hailey Nichols | Mar 16, 2026 | Healing Our Hurts
“We’re going to need to schedule you for a biopsy.” The words caught me by surprise. I immediately stopped scrolling through my phone and froze at the thought, “What will happen to my children if I die?” Finding suspicious tissue during a mammogram was not a new...
by Hailey Nichols | Feb 25, 2026 | Healing Our Hurts
I was born in search of my identity. I came into this world lost- not only spiritually, but in my very humanity. The search began as I created mud pies in the yard and twirled in a flowy pink dress in the living room. As I grew older, I looked high and low, in dark...
by Hailey Nichols | Feb 15, 2026 | Growing in God
Have you ever walked by freshly poured cement and felt the urge to make your handprint like the stars do in Hollywood? Have you ever wondered what the squishy gooey substance might feel like before it hardens into unmalleable stone? I have to admit, there is a part of...
