Guest Post: With God’s Love I’ll Be Okay
Most mornings start like this morning: I wake from dreams where I’m stuck in the past. In these dreams, I’m trying to run, talk, plead or beg my way out of a remembered time or place, real or symbolic, from …
Category: Family Life
Defining Evil: Insanity, Hatred and Demons
I’m confused and frightened by evil. I’ve seen it at close quarters. I grew up around it. I’ve lost people I loved to it. And yet, I still don’t understand evil, and to combat it, I think we must first …
Tales of Woe from the Soccer Field
It’s Tuesday afternoon. He runs into my room wearing cleats, shin guards and socks that are so long on his still tiny legs that they reach up over his knees and need to be folded over. I sigh and follow …
Confusing Science and Politics: What is Legitimate Rape?
It’s low-lying fruit, and everyone else is wailing away at it like little kids swatting at a stuffed piñata, but I’m going to jump into the latest misogynistic controversy involving Missouri Rep. Todd Akin. The Republican nominee for the U.S. …
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Ruminations on Past and Future: Another August Day
8:44 AM. Voices and hands and feet echo and bounce off the walls and I awake to another day in August. I shake off my nightmares and all of their painful psychological detritus. I should have known the nightmares would …
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Helping Break the Code of Silence, One Tiny Brick at a Time
I have written about the Code of Silence as it relates to PSU, and in Tuesday’s guest post, my friend and fellow blogger, Dawn Sticklen, has written about how it has affected her community. What I have not written about …
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Penn State University: Lessons Learned
Today I’d like to introduce Dawn Sticklen, from Since You Asked…. Dawn lives in Joplin, Missouri and she writes about family life both in her local community and around the globe. Her blog offers ideas for contributing to the overall …
PSU and Getting in Touch with my own Anger
I’ve followed the Jerry Sandusky case with a bit of self-protective distance until yesterday. Revelation after revelation exposed both horrific child abuse and an even worse phenomenon: a Code of Silence that protected a football program while it sacrificed …
Unmarked Gay Graves: Persecution and Death by Hatred
I looked up when I heard the angry tone. I searched the faces in the crowded classroom. Who was she talking to? Why are they staring at me? The more she said, the more they stared at me. Like a …
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8 Going On 28
I stride toward the elementary school’s front door and set my jaw. I am wearing my usual jeans and blue oxford button down shirt. Blue, gray and orange trail running shoes complete my outfit. I’ve rehearsed all of my lines. …