Originally posted on Shoes and Shortcakes:
Sometimes it feels like everyone is against me and no one is doing anything about it. Sometimes it feels like society cares more about protecting others’ reputations than protecting my safety. Sometimes it feels like ugly and manipulative lies are believed and valued above fearful and vulnerable truths. Sometimes it…
This morning I had reached a point in my memoir manuscript which I had merely placed in parentheses “… (X kiss…/ att’d rape.. / rescue).
I couldn’t bring myself to write That Story. It was too hard, too real. “No one wants to read that much truth”, my inner voice said. But the flood of #metoo posts gave me courage. Courage to tell this story;… Read More #MeToo
“What a Nasty Woman!”
This is what we get called when our need for truth-telling outweighs our need for approval. When the anger, passion and injustice flood over the dam of societal convention that dictates women are to be small, quiet, uncomplicated and, above all, pleasant. … Read More A “Nasty Woman” and the Enneagram
1,000 words a day.
Like crunches for my soul.
Because, if you are to fully be a Writer, you have to write.… Read More 1,000 words a day.
Dear Sisters, I want for you, lives lived out loud, lives of consuming passion for your world and for people who SEE you, and love you in all your wild, broken complexity. I hope we meet again, but in the meantime, I hope you seek out voices that free you, that give you wings. Voices like Glennon, and the incomparable Brené Brown, wonderful, flawed, gracious women like Jen Hatmaker, and artists with the gift of honestly and self-compassion like Amena Brown and Nichole Nordeman. I hope we meet again and share our stories, to encourage one another to live boldly in a world that wants us small but needs us to be large.… Read More To the women I met at coffee today…
Stories, Thoughts, Opinions, and Rants. Grab a cuppa, and stay awhile.
Stories, Thoughts, Opinions, and Rants. Grab a cuppa, and stay awhile.
Stories, Thoughts, Opinions, and Rants. Grab a cuppa, and stay awhile.
Stories, Thoughts, Opinions, and Rants. Grab a cuppa, and stay awhile.
Stories, Thoughts, Opinions, and Rants. Grab a cuppa, and stay awhile.
Stories, Thoughts, Opinions, and Rants. Grab a cuppa, and stay awhile.
Stories, Thoughts, Opinions, and Rants. Grab a cuppa, and stay awhile.
Stories, Thoughts, Opinions, and Rants. Grab a cuppa, and stay awhile.
Stories, Thoughts, Opinions, and Rants. Grab a cuppa, and stay awhile.
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