Sarah James and I are talking about the Women Tell All episode of The Bachelor, which frankly . . . made us a little uncomfortable. I share a theory on who JPab ends up with (plot twist!), we speculate on the next Bachelorette, and we squirm as each contestant confirms her disdain for JPab despite crying over their lost love in the limo on the way out. Oh, and here is our friend who may need some counseling after the finale next week. Any predictions for next week? . . .
“Where you are born shouldn’t dictate whether you live or die”
Last week, I had the change to travel to Washington, DC for part of the ONE Summit. ONE is an advocacy organization founded by Bono, dedicated to addressing poverty in Africa. I attended as a ONE Moms ambassador, which seeks to rally moms around these causes. I’ve long been a fan of the ONE campaign so I was thrilled to become a part of the ONE Moms team. (And it didn’t hurt that I was joining some of my favorite ladies.) Our first day there, we spent learning about the initiatives that ONE is . . .
What to do with one day in San Francisco with kids
The kids had ski week last week – a west coast tradition in which the 1% goes to their ski chalets, and the rest of us either scramble for childcare or make the best of a random mid-winter week without school. We’re not big on cold-weather sports, or cold-weather anything for that matter. But our ski week coincided with Mark’s brother and family who live in Seattle so we decided to meet in the middle and spend the week in Sonoma County. On our way up, we took one day to see the sights in San . . .
That’s what SHE said: marriages are like houses, diversity at the Oscars, the American dream, gifted people and parties, and more . . .
Old Houses Are Like This | Girl's Gone Child But my silence is a ravine against his mountainous loud. And suddenly we are standing on either side of the Grand Canyon, communicating only through letters that cannot be delivered by post. “I feel like I’m alone,” he shouts against the borders of my whispers. “You don’t understand me,” I whisper into the margins of his cries. 'I Am Still Called By The God I Serve To Walk This Out' | Ta-Nehisi Coates For The Atlantic She wanted you to know that what . . .
PRESS RELEASE: Blogger loses will to write/live after being asked to weigh in on proposed gay discrimination laws
Kristen Howerton, the blogger who regularly writes here, has reportedly given up the will to continue blogging after being faced with writing yet another post about Christians behaving badly towards gay people. The blogger, who has written many times on the topic of how Jesus would respond to the LGBT community, received numerous requests to weigh in on the discriminatory bills being proposed in Arizona, Kansas, Georgia, South Dakota and Tennessee. And while her level of outrage would typically . . .
What I want you to know about living with a rare disease
Today is International Rare Disease Day, an advocacy day to bring widespread recognition of rare diseases as a global health challenge. I have a few folks who are going to share about living with a rare disease. Mollie’s son Austin is living with Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood I remember looking at Austin in his bed after birth, an overwhelming feeling came over me, and I just thought to myself, my life is so complete now. My son, Austin, was born and had . . .
An adoptive mom’s powerful photo essay on rude adoption comments
Kim Kelley-Wagner, an adopted mama to two girls born in China, grew tired of the rude and intrusive comments she had to field when out and about with her children. In an effort to illustrate how hurtful the comments were, she and her daughters made a list of the comments they had heard, and then wrote them out and took a picture with them. It’s a powerful photo series that illustrates just how hurtful such comments can be. “I have tried to explain to my daughters that people do not say these . . .
It’s okay. The Bachelor fantasy suite recap is here.
First of all, apologies for skipping last week. I was out of town, and also perhaps underestimating how many of you would be asking for our recap. This one is a twofer, since we got an episode both Monday and Tuesday night this week. And since I’d missed the previous week, that meant I returned home from vacation to SIX HOURS of The Bachelor. But I did it. I watched it all. I hope you appreciate it. What is happening in this photo? Are we praying? Singing worship songs? You’ll have to watch to . . .
What I want you to know: how to help a spouse recover from sexual abuse
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Mary DeMuth. I've shared my sexual abuse story in the last few years, but I haven't always been so open. Initially I kept it silent for a decade, then over-shared, then went silent another decade. The . . .
Questions of eternal significance: What technology do you allow in the bedroom?
We’ve been having a little marital spat because recently I decided to move my iphone plug from a desk in the living room to my nightstand in the bedroom. I like using my phone as an alarm clock, and sometimes it’s relax to thumb through instagram before I fall asleep. Mark feels that this is a slippery slope because we’ve always been a “screen-free bedroom” kind of couple. But I’ve tried excusing this since a) it’s really about the alarm feature which is more convenient than an alarm clock, and . . .
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