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October 2014

October 24, 2014

Re-post: I am Not My Parents

This post was originally published in May of 2011. I'll admit, I still go back...

October 09, 2014

Re-post: Never Good Enough

This post was originally published in August of 2010. It was the first time I...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

Jessa Duggar’s Happily Ever After

So Jessa Duggar is officially courting and seeing the headlines on news sites and the...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Yes I buy ice cream with my food stamps.

When we were on the brink of transition, and facing the prospect of losing our income...

August 2013

August 23, 2013

Learning Humility

We got a mattress. It’s the first big ticket purchase we’ve made in a long...

June 2013

June 01, 2013

Substance and Spice

I worked second shift for 8 months. 30+ hours a week, going to bed...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

On Being Evangelized

I can usually spot them when they come in. The "superchristians". The excessively patronizing men...

February 08, 2013

Shame and Hospitality

Haley had scheduled the get-together a week in advance. I knew all about it. And...

February 04, 2013

The Habit of Peace

Every season is nice, but each one ends up feeling about 6 weeks too long...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Keeping Never Good Enough at Bay

I went to a visit with a counselor recently, and talked about the persistent feeling...

January 2012

January 03, 2012

As I face 2012

Found via Pinterest 2011 feels like a long year that went by really fast. So...

November 2011

November 08, 2011

A new partnership

Recently my husband and I ended up fighting on and off all weekend about (of...

October 2011

October 12, 2011

Letters to my Dad

Recently in a box of old journals, I found a draft of a letter I...

August 2011

August 25, 2011

You never know who is listening

Family was up visiting, and we had some church members over for coffee after church....

December 2010

December 11, 2010

Gender Roles and Shame: Part 2

After my last post about shame, I started thinking about the rest of the story....