Laurie A. Bell

Pearls are a metaphor for everything that you love and appreciate about yourself and your world. These things are precious to you.

I was my mother’s only child, at least on the surface. Two years prior to my birth she had a son: Timothy Allen Bell. He was born on the...

Emotions can be difficult to deal with. They don’t always feel good; sometimes they feel really, really bad. It can seem easier to avoid...