When your entire worldview is seen through the distorted lens of the evangelical Christian church and purity culture, you don’t think about the consequences when you know that you’re right and they are wrong. No matter who it hurts.
That Song… or How to Torture Your Mom
Oh the songs. All it takes is a couple of words. Two notes. Puff the Magic Dragon lives by the sea… Bananas in Pajamas, are going down the stairs… Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand…. Millions of peaches, peaches for free… Not much. Just enough to allow my daughter and I […]
Old Year, New Year
I don’t make new year’s resolutions. The new year always causes us to focus on the things we haven’t done, or on those things we did do but wish we hadn’t. They manifest themselves as goals and given the title Resolution to make us more likely to follow through. A week or a month may pass […]
Christmas Memories
I remember the tiny tree with the miniature decorations sat on the bedside table in her room and the sparkly lights reflecting off the wall. She’d asked to come here, to leave home, and it tore my Dad apart. She had been home such a short period of time. He wanted her to be home […]