This story just made me sad. Christian musician Jennifer Knapp took a seven-year hiatus from work because she was exhausted and felt like she needed to figure things out. She felt like she couldn’t be gay and be a Christian. To me, this would be equivalent of all of us saying we can’t be obese […]
Momma Zen Does It Again
In January, while the cold wintry winds blew the snow into higher mounds outside, I holed up in a local coffee shop and read an advance copy of Karen Maezen Miller’s new book Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life. I didn’t know what to expect, except as most of you know by […]
Fighting Hatred With Love
You know what they say (“they” meaning this mysterious group of imaginary grouchy people who float about for the sole purpose of sucking the joy out of life) about not-feeling-butterflies-anymore-once-you-get-married? Well. I’m here to prove them wrong. I received an e-mail from my lovely other half yesterday afternoon, and I was so touched by it […]
A Path and a Practice
Okay, so it’s no secret I’ve fallen in love with William Martin’s books. I’ve just received his A Path and a Practice, which is equally as lovely as the two I’ve touted already–The Parent’s Tao Te Ching and The Couple’s Tao Te Ching. Since my voice is slowly coming back around (I lost it, in […]
To Be Remembered
College was a stressful, lonely time for me, mainly because of financial worries. I never knew if I would have enough money to cover the next quarter’s payments…or rent…or food. In fact, I was on the UCLA crew team (the rowing team, for those of you not familiar with that term), which consisted of three- […]