Your original perfection

All of us it seems, have two voices in our head. Sometimes all we hear is the critical nudge who insists we’re never enough, that we find a new job…

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Trash TV: When kids catch you in the act

The other night my daughter looked over me lying on the couch. "What are you watching?" she asked. I guess I fell asleep in front of some movie called "House Bunny."…

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Whores-de-vores

Have you ever butchered a word?  I mean just bloodied the poor thing? I took French for 7 years and I still can't pronounce sommelier, the wine expert at restaurants.…

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Impolite Conversations: Talking about hard issues without cringing or screaming.

  Can't WAIT to read this book! "Here's a thought: it is truly difficult to have a conversation without really listening to the person we are talking to. Not only…

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Jesus and Jello. Why I liked my religious buffet growing up.

Image credit: Wikipedia   Excerpted from my essay "Jesus and Jello" I was raised with a la carte religion, a buffet line of a little bit here, a little bit…

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Ice bucket challenge ‘narcissism masked as altruism?’ Oh for Pete (Frates’) sake.

“It’s like a game of Would-You-Rather involving the entire internet where, appallingly, most Americans would rather dump ice water on their head than donate to charity,” writes Arielle Pardes at…

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Robin Williams: Our brilliant masked man.

I couldn't figure out why I woke up this morning still thinking about Robin Williams. My husband offhandedly asked me yesterday why he thinks he did it, and maybe he…

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Entitled? Of course veterans, and our hard-working willing.

Few issues on the American landscape are more sacred, more immune to partisan feuding than supporting our returning soldiers. Most people, pro-war or against,  wouldn't dare deny soldiers accessible, affordable…

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Pregnancy ‘warm and fuzzy,’ birth control ‘immoral?’ Mr. Potter, snap out of it.

Click here to sign petition against Eden Foods I'm curious if Eden Food's CEO Mr. Michael Potter ever had the "immoral and unnatural practices" he says birth control promotes, before he got…

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God, Guns but no gays? My Letter to this Kentucky business owner

Image: Wikimedia Commons I just sent the following email to this Kentucky business owner. I'm HORRIFIED his family received death and rape threats for his store policy, but I'm also horrified…

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