I was recently asked how and why my politics changed. Aside from the years when my first husband forbade me to vote, I was once a right-wing conservative voter. I now vote mostly blue and I’m vocal …
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The opening paragraph of my upcoming novel includes a sentence that fell from my fingers one firey afternoon. I’d been writing on a tear and words were pouring out of me uncensored. I wrote, “One …
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Trauma: a deeply distressing experience or injury. Religious Trauma: Deeply distressing damage caused by authoritarian and dogmatic indoctrination that results in terror, helplessness, or …
So many Easters. There's the western Easter of my protestant childhood, full of passion plays and easter lilies, new dresses and ham dinners. There's the eastern Easter of my adulthood, a midnight …
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People who grow up without religious baggage fascinate me. Like, what did you do– just grow up and explore? And then decide for yourself what you believed from what you learned and observed? These are …
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