In 2007 — after 24 years of Christianity and 9 years of being a pastor’s wife — I finally admitted to myself and LiveJournal that I no longer…
Dear Mother-in-Law, If you and I are going to get along this summer as you visit for yet another extended period, you are going to have to start following some rules: …
I’m a grown woman with kids, and, in trying economic times, we do as all good Americans do and move to where the jobs are. Trying to integrate…
I have a very high tolerance for American bashing. As a New Yorker, I do a fair amount of it myself. I also lived in the UK where,…
My daughter, G, was about four the first time I took her to the dentist. We’d been pretty diligent about brushing her teeth, even flossing occasionally, and neither…
When one of my closest friends passed away suddenly at a young age, my world was rocked. When I walked into the viewing room and saw my beautiful…
We are raising our children in the middle of a fundamentalist Bible belt. Everybody in the area goes to private Christian schools and it is a little overwhelming…
This is a letter I wrote to my father when I was twenty-one, when the awful truths were still being uncovered. I never sent it. It’s been in my…
For the past decade Facebook has been bridging the great expanses of the internet to allow people to reach out and poke one another and never get their…
I struggle with patience. I was not blessed with that virtue, and it shows. A lot. I remember going skiing as a child and absolutely hating it with…