Irrational pollyannaism wrapped in sarcasm.
This is part of the synchroblog on waiting, to celebrate the release of Those Who Wait: Finding God in Disappointment, Doubt and Delay by Tanya Marlow – out now. See more here and link up to the synchroblog here. The other day, I sighed and told my sister, “Things are going too well lately.” Which sounds like a stupid thing to complain about (and I might have a skewed view…
Before I get into this, I want to congratulate Tanya Marlow. Her new book, Those Who Wait: Finding God in Disappointment, Doubt and Delay, launched today. So I bet you can guess what I’ll be reading tonight. I’ll have some exciting book announcement stuff of my own coming soon (I want to make a video for that, but I honestly just don’t feel like putting on…
Spoiler Alert (But, for real, just go watch the movie.) I’ve wanted to write something about Wonder Woman, but I decided to wait a while. Well, it’s been a while, so let’s dig into the No Man’s Land scene. Now, I don’t cry during movies (unless it’s Shadow returning home at the end of Homeward Bound because that old dog coming up over the hill makes me cry every…
Image credit: flickr: Annie Chartrand I run faster than a snake flies. But only sometimes. A rat snake pinwheels, open-mouthed, through the air. Jessica screams. I want to scream too, but if I open my mouth, I might get a mouthful of snake. It arcs and falls, smacking my bare legs. The freckled boy whoops it up, and Jessica screams, “Run!” As I turn, another…
I’m getting to be that age. You know, the age when you take a look at what you have (or haven’t) accomplished. And it pisses me off so much. It doesn’t piss me off that I’ve accomplished so little, as much as it pisses me off that other people have accomplished so much. I wish we were judged more by how difficult it was to…
Full disclosure: Neither of us are actually Mennonites anymore. Sometimes we just pretend to be for the pie. A few months ago, my friend, Timothy Putnam, gave me a head’s up about the Trying to Say “God” conference. (I’ve got to give him credit here because I usually just give him a lot of crap and nonsense.) Even though I’m not exactly Catholic (I’m not exactly…
Take it seriously. The first thing you have to understand is that stalking is a pattern of behavior, not a one-time incident. Your friend may tell you she’s afraid because her stalker left dead flowers on her porch. That may sound minor to you, but what you don’t know is that her stalker has also been calling just to wake her up every night at…
I don’t normally jump on the latest topic that’s flying around on social media. And I’m not going to jump on Mike Pence. (I mean. I’m a pacifist. Jumping on people is frowned upon.) What I do want to talk about is something I’ve mostly seen people talk around instead of about. Some people believe that men and women should never be alone together. That…
There are two main things people who know me well will tell you. I’m weird and I like it. I’m comfortable with who I am, but I wasn’t always. It was a hard road and I endured quite a bit of bullying and deflated self-worth before I got here. Lately, several people have asked me how I learned to own, and even embrace, my weirdness. Maybe…
In 1998—the era of screeching modems and dial-up speeds we thought were lightning fast—I was one of a few people I knew who had a home internet connection and their own website. When Geocities closed down, I thought my teenage website was gone forever, but thanks to Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine, it’s still out there, kicking it late-90s style. I was an opinionated little thing…