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Disappointing the Christian Republicans, It Hurts: 1997 – present
The last bit of this reads like I’m a PhD. I’m not. I have a BA in English. In the larger piece, that is clear before you get here. Hanging out with some friends this weekend, we were talking about our parents and how it’s easy to say, “I don’t care what they think,” but […]
The Misogynist Rhetoric Runs Deep: 1980 – present
This is the beginning of a piece about sexual assault: It is deep inside me, a sliver of an idea, an idea that I have tried to banish by reading feminist criticism, by performing in The Vagina Monologues, by reading those sad, captioned photos online that have rape victims holding white signs with handwritten quotations […]
Before I Lost Jesus: 1996
This takes place immediately after the first time I am really wrecked up over a boy I loved. I was fifteen. The tradition on the first night of camp is to have an altar call camp fire. An altar call is a mystical event, where people “recommit” their lives to Christ. It is a spectacle […]
I Buy My Parents Underwear For Christmas: 1998
Kelley took loads of pictures of my family. Here’s one of my parents, probably around the time I bought them underwear for Xmas. I am in the Point Mall because I am in the school chorus and we are having a holiday concert there. This is a strange place, I think, to have a concert, […]
The Day I Lost Jesus: 1997
This is not the juiciest part. But I think maybe the point of this little exercise is giving you the not juiciest part, so maybe you want to read more? The picture is of me & my second car. The names have been changed to protect God’s Lambs. It is me and five grownups, we’ll […]
How I learned about Foreplay: 1994-1995 (Late Bloomer)
As promised, here is the first little excerpt. And here’s a picture from my youth. Thank you, Kelley Stevens. I’m guessing this is around the same time period because I have a similar hair cut as I do now, and because I am not wearing glasses. I started wearing glasses in 1996. In my early-teen […]
What’s Next? or Why I’ve Been a Shitty Blogger and How I Plan to Change
You probably remember the days when I blogged five days a week. And I doubt you’ve missed me. But I’ve missed you. See, I’m in this grad program for writing. It’s mostly online. I go two times a year for about a week to get my physical learning on, then the rest of the time […]
Late 2012, or Self (Publishing) Help: How to Be a Baller Client
Late in 2012, I had the honor of working with two excellent writers. These authors are not excellent because they and I share a bit of commonality in terms of literary goals and aesthetics, they were excellent because they were wonderful to work with. The authors were REKTOK ross, author of YA Inspirational Romance, and […]
Happy New Year in April Line Writing Land: Stop Sex Trafficking of Minors!
I have been busy, and neglecting you, fair blog readers. But I’m on a train after spending New Year’s Eve at a benefit for A13, an initiative by Resolution Hope to stop sex trafficking of minors by building awareness and to provide care and appropriate homes and healing resources for women and and children who […]
