Apr 20, 2013 | Life: unmasked
I heard this quoted by Dr. Brene (‘breh-NAY’) Brown on an episode of Oprah’s “Super Soul Sunday” show. The entire show is well worth your time, especially if you’re like me, dissatisfied with shallowness and pretending, but afraid...
Feb 23, 2013 | Family, Life: unmasked, Relationships
I’m telling a very personal story today for this month’s Life:Unmasked link-up: about my weight. (If you are like me and forgot, I decided to change things up and only host this link-up once a month on a Saturday. I forgot to do it last month and realized today...
Jan 9, 2013 | Critical Thinking, Faith and Doubt, Guest Posts, Life: unmasked
Many of you have asked me good questions about my posts on writing naked: what to share and what not to share, when to share, and what to do with the parts of those stories that aren’t yours. These questions do not have easy answers, but my friend Alise has some...
Jan 2, 2013 | Life: unmasked
I’ve been hosting a link-up I call “Life: Unmasked” on Wednesdays for over a year now, in an effort to encourage you and I to stop pretending and be real… to write naked. A few brave souls link up each week, sharing the always complicated, never perfect, often...
Nov 14, 2012 | Faith and Doubt, Finding Church, Life: unmasked
Steady isn’t very flashy and exciting. Steady is enduring and stable. It’s the straightaway. No loop-the-loops or corkscrews or stomach-in-your-throat drops. Just forward, and not very fast. I can be a bit of a thrill junkie. I love the adrenaline rush of...
Nov 7, 2012 | Critical Thinking, Life: unmasked
My Facebook newsfeed gets nearly unbearable during a presidential election cycle. Many of my friends and I don’t even read it anymore, or we block our more extreme friends so we don’t have to see all the vitriol. This week, we decided to find the humor in...