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Daringly Honest Thoughts About God, Life and People


He Told Me I'd Be Famous, and He Was Wrong (Embracing Intentional Obscurity and Book Promotion)
image credit: sonoma.edu Just before my book came out last year, a well-known person who’d read it sent me a personal email and said,...
Feb 21, 20143 min read


What I’d Want You to Know if I Died Today (Yeah, This is Weird)
Image credit: alsglobal.com When plane passengers experience strong wind turbulence, they do what comes naturally. Some pray, some panic....
Feb 4, 20142 min read


Difficult People are Like Cake Testers and You Need Them
Image credit: shaunasever.com Recently someone behaved rudely toward me, which wouldn't ordinarily be a big deal, except this person,...
Jan 29, 20142 min read


Why I Don’t Want My Daughters to Have High Self Esteem
Because sometimes those with “high self esteem” have low others-esteem. Because if my girls grow up to think highly of themselves but are...
Dec 16, 20132 min read


On Being a Helicopter Mom of Free-Range Kids
(This post was written when my girls were small; half of them have left the nest and the other half are flapping their wings. I don't...
Oct 7, 20133 min read


Two Things My Dad Did Right
My dad did a lot of things right, but two of them made all the difference. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it weren’t for those two...
Jun 16, 20132 min read
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