Posts Tagged ‘Vulnerability’

Your Wonderful, Powerful, Imperfect Story

We live in a success-oriented society. On the whole, we highly value ease, comfort, perfection, excellence, progress and achievement. We’re encouraged to plan and organize our lives at every juncture and in every respect to best place ourselves for the ease, comfort and success we value so highly,...

January 24th, 2013 | God Knows | Read More

Just Love ‘Em.

Your much-loved, much-lauded, beautiful son finally marries the love of his life, but despite your pride and delight, you can’t brag on him or his new partner to any of your friends at church. Because the love of his life is actually a man. What do you do? You hide. Your daughter moves out into her...

December 27th, 2012 | Social Justice | Read More

Make-Up My Mask

Being a mom of two young girls, I have to get myself ready before they wake up or else it just doesn’t happen. Since I’m a working mom, getting my “face on” before my little ones rise is a must. The other day I happened to be freshening up my make-up when my four-year-old came...

November 19th, 2012 | Essays, Featured | Read More

KC Can’t Skate

I had never ice-skated before, only roller-bladed. My younger brother Rocky and I would spend countless hours on the back patio pretending to be Wayne Gretzky and Jurri Kurri. KC would sometimes play goalie, but not with roller blades. He was older than us, but KC couldn’t skate. My dad decided...

October 9th, 2012 | Essays, Sports | Read More

I’m With Her

The room couldn’t have been more than 6 x 6. A round table was squeezed in with three blue chairs positioned randomly around it. Juvenile Detention is stark. My friend, Leslie, and I sat waiting for a 16-year-old girl to be brought to the visitation room. Arranging myself in the corner, I...

July 13th, 2012 | Essays, Featured | Read More

An Endangered Species Speaks Up

I’m pretty special. Not in the sense that “everyone is unique” kind of special. I mean, I am special in that way too. But I am even more special, if that is possible. It is to the extent that they should create an endangered species category for me and my kind. Virgins. See, I wasn’t...

November 15th, 2010 | Essays, Featured | Read More