The honest answer is that I really don’t know how on earth he won me over so quickly. What I do know is that the time it took Wally to find the very center of my heart could be measured… Continue Reading →
Jesus was everything to me. For as long as I can remember, it would not have been an exaggeration to say that Jesus was the reason for my existence. As a kid, I was steeped in an evangelical faith tradition… Continue Reading →
The story that we are told about Easter is at the same time graphic, boundless in love, and powerful enough to launch a movement that has persisted for two thousand years. Jesus had a message of love and inclusion. He… Continue Reading →
I also thought about all the things he didn’t say. He didn’t say that she was pretty. He didn’t say that she was too emotional. He didn’t say that she was a member of the second best gender or that she should learn how to keep a house. He didn’t say that he cannot wait until she gets older so that people could objectify her and take advantage of their power over her. He said she was smart.
I heard this week that somebody called Michelle Obama an “ape in heels.” This is not the first time something like this has been said and I’m fairly certain that it won’t be the last. I will readily admit that I have an undying love for Michelle Obama and that love probably motivated me to sit and write about this, but know that I would feel the same way about any similarly egregious remarks.
We all get labeled at some point in our lives. We’re labeled as the smart girl, or the jock, or the bitch at work, or the Donald Trump supporter. True, some of them be deserved; these labels might reflect something… Continue Reading →
One of my favorite things about my relationship with my wife is the amount of time we spend cooking in the kitchen. Hey hey! That’s what she said!! But, no, this is not a euphemism. We literally spend a lot… Continue Reading →
But since it falls unto my lot That I should rise and you should not I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call Good night and joy be with you all // the parting glass There are millions of beautiful people… Continue Reading →
I’m not a war connoisseur or a history buff but I watch a ridiculous quantity of war documentaries on Netflix. The way that these stories have been crafted are really interesting to me. You couldn’t write more compelling fiction. There’s… Continue Reading →
Marriage is a loaded word. You’d think that after thousands of years of marriages, we would have figured it out. If you were able to step outside of time and look in at humanity, you would think that marriage is… Continue Reading →
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