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Talking Politics at the Dinner Table
During the 2020 campaign season, Moira joined me on a …
Affirming is an Action Word
As my faith shifted and changed, I found myself in …
Your Kids are Privilege Shelters
When you have kids, you want to give them the …
Go to hell…jk, please don’t…jk, there’s no hell…jk jk jk patriarchy, ugh.
In the faith system I came from, not wanting sinners …
Sounds like not-a-me-problem
When I was younger, in my certainty-loving, ultra-controlled churches, there …
A New Year
Thirty-eight is just old enough to really get into some healing. To know what I mean when I say “perfectionism is killing you.” If I’d started this journey before 38, I could not have enjoyed it. It’s taken me exactly this long to prepare myself to be able to handle my life. My messy, joyful, sometimes strenuous life.
The Smell of Drowning
For most of my childhood we lived near water—either the …
“I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.”
One night in college, a group of girls in my …
Favorite Things Written and Read in 2020
Okay, since no one else is going to say it, …
Small Girl Mows Small Lawn
A local six-year-old stunned many last week by doing what, …
Sam Houston High School’s Entire Class of 2020 sat through the National Anthem at their Graduation in Protest.
Then the Valedictorian called out the school’s administration. (This story …