UPDATE: Please read this for additional information on the source of this story and several inaccuracies that I discovered as I did further research on it.  *** According to WTOP news, a radio station in Virginia, and further reported on Right Wing Watch and Think Progress under the headline “Disabled Children are god’s punishment”: Western Prince…

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“It looks like everyone else is keeping their house beautifully AND creating magazine-quality posts AND cooking gourmet healthy food AND raising perfect kids who eat the gourmet healthy food and follow their customized personalized monogrammed chore charts.” I hear this from friends a lot. This is exactly why I started Life:Unmasked last year. Because all of…

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This Monday I’m joining some blogger friends in launching a weekly synchroblog we’re calling “The Parent ‘Hood.” I hope that you’ll join us. Visit Fried Okra for all the details. *** My son barreled through the garage door, wailing. “Mom, isn’t there anything we can do today?” I put my book down. “Sure! We can…

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I recently read a series on gossip written by the pastor of a local church. In it, he defines gossip as “secret slander. Or as one lexicon defines it, gossip is ‘providing harmful information about a person, often spoken in whispers or in low voice, with the implication that such information is not widely known…

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Have you ever wondered what a vision trip is like? I know I did before I went on one. I sat down to sketch out a typical day, but then I realized that doesn’t exist. Then I thought about setting this up like a choose-your-own-adventure book, but that is too complicated for this still jet-lagged…

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I’m [relatively] safe and sound at home, 8,000 miles from Sri Lanka, today. The time change has been rough, compounded by the 33 hours of travel to get home. My body keeps telling me to stop pulling all-nighters. It begins to shut down mid-afternoon in protest of the total routine inversion I’ve inflicted on it…

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