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Harvey Weinstein may have been found guilty in court today, but the battle has just...

My previous post Dear Chastity Speakers, Please Stop Speaking was an attempt to garner discussion...

This post is edited from a piece in my previous blog. You can read the...

***TW: Sex assault, Church sex abuse, etc***   Give it a century—maybe two The conclaves...

I worked last night, so I missed the Superbowl. Also, I do not particularly enjoy...

I’ve lived my life in pockets Lined with fur, With flowers, With velvet, lace, leather,...

How do you have hope, in the face of growing war, genocide, and complete obliteration?...

On this past December 31, 2019, I decided that in this New Year, new decade,...

A transsexual friend asked me, “Will they love me when she’s gone? Will all the...

***TW: This post deals with PTSD, abuse, trauma, and triggers related to those and other...

  Social media is at its best a helpful tool and at its worst a...

  Content warning: discussion includes domestic violence, PTSD, gun violence, and stalking. . . ....

One of my least favorite questions in school come Thanksgiving was, "What are you thankful...

I was 13 when The Phantom of the Opera film came out. Although it had...

  ***Content Warning: Child Loss***   This spring, I spent way too much time with...

Two days ago I celebrated my 25th birthday. To mark this important milestone, I finally...

  As a young stay-at-home mother in the rural Midwest, I find a lot of...

   Back in 2014 when artist Kesha Rose Serbert (known as Kesha)  entered rehab, I...

A few months ago (perhaps in July) I stumbled upon a reflection on God as...

My senior year of college, I was briefly in a Bollywood film class (Indian Hollywood/cinema),...

As is evident from the countless weeks since I've published ANYTHING on this blog, I...

One of the things I’m most grateful for, especially when life hits me low, is...

My last blast from the past from my old blog, Into the Mysterious Dark. You...

This is another piece from my old blog, Into the Mysterious Dark. You can read...

This was first published on my old blog, Into the Mysterious Dark. You can read...

For years, I just thought I had something akin to ADHD. I could not focus...

There have been two mass shootings in the US in the past 24 hours. When...

  The following is an excerpt from a journal entry I wrote. Rereading it, I...

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was, next to Tolkien’s The Lord...

It is the apparently tenuous question so much of the debate with the sex abuse...