Taking back Christianity
All my life, I have been a Christian. I was raised in a Southern Baptist church where Vacation Bible School meant memorizing Bible verses for candy and “revival” meant a new minister for a while… A new voice to stir the soul. I was taught to say yes ma’am and yes sir, to respect my [...]
A Mending of Hearts
I had my first heartbreak when I was a senior in college. I remember calling and calling when it was finally over, wondering what went wrong and how to fix it… isn’t that the way with first heartbreaks? No matter what age? Looking back, I shudder when I think about how lost I was for [...]
Working in Working Out
One of the hardest things for me during and after my divorce was/is this: although some people lose weight when they are upset or depressed, I gain. I gain… a lot. And over the course of the last year of my marriage and first few months of my divorce, I did just that… I GAINED. [...]
Age IS just a number, right?
This morning, I listened to Inner Circle on my way to work. For those of you who can’t or won’t remember the 90s, they’re the band who sang that delightful “Sweat (a la la la la long)” song that I used to listen to on repeat with my best friend in high school. I put [...]
The Art of Saying “No”
I’ve been slack lately about posting at my third “job” over at Liberating Working Moms, but today, I finally posted!! (I’m sure my editor is thrilled with the fact that I managed to string more than two coherent sentences together… don’t get your hopes up for more than that!) And to be honest, I’ve been [...]
Having it All
I just got back to work after an hour luncheon with some law students at my old law school. The purpose of the meeting was to impart all of my glorious wisdom re: being a woman lawyer to a group of women who are in the process of, well, becoming lawyers. It was eye opening. [...]
Smallish Set Backs
I failed my son this weekend. Oh, and I was so massively embarrased about it. I am so massively embarrassed about it. But we all make mistakes, right? We all do stupid things that we wish we could take back. On Friday, J’s father came to pick him up for the weekend… my first break in [...]
Super Me
For whatever reason, lately J has been really into superheroes. We don’t watch Spiderman or Batman or anything like that, but he is constantly talking about them anyway. One of the things I did when I was desperate for time alone at work when he was out of daycare sick was download the entire first season [...]
Karma?
It occurred to me on Friday that I had not had any type of conversation with the Easter Bunny about what he would be bringing my child. Since I don’t have anyone in-house to keep J while I … ahem, meet, I hired a baby sitter to come on Saturday so I could have a [...]
Pretty
For much of my life I have been convinced of one sacred truth. Through all the ups and downs, all the craziness of growing up and education and marriage and divorce, I knew one thing… one imperfect, semi-disputed, seldom voiced truth: I am not pretty. I do not say this to get you to disagree [...]
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