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Karen Spears Zacharias

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June 2012

June 23, 2012

Memories of The Redhead: Mama was a Dancing Woman

I have been praying for a redhead grandson. My daughter says that's a weird prayer....

June 21, 2012

SBC: The One True Church of the Heterosexual God

I was raised up in the South, home of the One True Church of the...

June 20, 2012

This presidential election: Why I don’t care

I don't care who will win the upcoming presidential election. I really don't. Oh. I...

June 18, 2012

New York City’s Mayor Mom

(Editor's Note: Disclaimer:  The following is NOT a real news story. It is satire, told...

June 17, 2012

A Father of a Different Sort

Those Father’s Day commercials are difficult to watch. The ones in which dads happily take...

June 17, 2012

All Good Men Rise

Maria Shriver took to Twitter and her blog this week to ask a question: What makes...

June 16, 2012

When Sinners Heal

Graduation day has finally arrived. Sinner collects a diploma he has worked three long years...

June 13, 2012

The Sacrifice of Being Gay & Mormon

A dozen years ago I interviewed a gay man who was married -- to a...

June 12, 2012

Hold your applause Rosie O’Donnell

Rosie O'Donnell and I had a brief Twitter exchange yesterday in response to this video...

June 11, 2012

A Matter of Acceptance or Ignorance?

  There's this hill I climb on my morning walks. It's a graceful climb that...

June 10, 2012

A Viral Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Tim and I are fixing up a 33-year-old rocking chair.  My mother gave it to...

June 08, 2012

You can’t change anything

He sat silent throughout the presentation and the dozens of hard questions that followed. Then...

June 07, 2012

Tate’s Abusive Tirade

I've published two books with mainstream publishers, one with an academic press, and two with...

June 06, 2012

You’re not the boss of me

(Editor's note) My friend Bert Montgomery (now a blogger for the HuffPo)  has been urging me...

June 05, 2012

Satanic Hypocrite

  He looked like Woody Allen with longer hair, albeit still balding on top. He...

June 04, 2012

Not to be rude, but…

Can we talk? I mean about something so personal you probably haven't divulged the truth...

June 04, 2012

Drinking Habits of a Younger Generation

It seems like everyone in my life drinks their breakfast. My daughters do it. My...

June 01, 2012

Murder repeats itself

This weekend marks the anniversary of the murder of Karly Sheehan. Had she not been...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

A Safe Community

On clear days, like yesterday, Taylor sees Mt. Rainier on her afternoon drive home. My...

May 30, 2012

Up to Good

  Ann Voskamp wrote a thoughtful piece about perspective. In it she states "God is...

May 29, 2012

Then and Now

I grew up during a time and place where the only blacks in the schools...

May 27, 2012

An Invitation of Honor

Several of my friends are headed to the White House. They are having breakfast with...

May 24, 2012

Memorial Day & the Mattress Man

I'm in Portland for a book event tonight (Thursday) at Powell's bookstore (7 p.m. Cedar...

May 23, 2012

Doing the Ugly Cry

Ms. Terry wants everybody to know one thing: "I may not be the happiest person...

May 22, 2012

A Poetic Conspiracy

So I have this beautiful neice. Taylor. You know a girl is beautiful when she...

May 21, 2012

The Redneck & the Owlet

That's my friend Swede upon that ladder rigging up a redneck fix to a very...

May 20, 2012

Love Wins but at what cost?

  I worry about The Marine sometimes. He would scoff at me for that, so...

May 18, 2012

Time for the Church to step up

  It never fails. Every time I speak before any group about A SILENCE OF...

May 14, 2012

Two Sides of Creation

      This is the place where my mother creates. Had she been born...

May 13, 2012

Raised by Lousy Moms

Dolores Aguilar 1929 – Aug. 7, 2008 Dolores Aguilar, born in 1929 in New Mexico,...

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