Image credit: Photo by Nena B. on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few months ago, Mark and I took the kids to a "sensory friendly" movie showing. Autistic individuals, and others with sensory processing difficulties, can find a typical movie going experience overwhelming. Movies are loud. Theaters are dark and often crowded. The screen [...]
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Prayer
Image credit: Photo by the italian Jonathan on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few days ago, a columnist I generally like wrote a satirical piece on sex addiction rehab (one I won't link to here, due to its triggering nature). He's a liberal columnist, so the comments were populated with lots of LOLs and [...]
God in 100 Words or Fewer
Image credit: Photo by WTL photos on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Over at Patheos, a few bloggers were asked to describe God in 100 words or "less" (It should be "fewer," but does God want me to nitpick about grammar in this case? I don't know. So I'm passive-aggressively nitpicking, just a little.) and some [...]
Impatient Haiku
Praying for patience. Praying... Waiting... Stupid God! I want patience now!
Coming Home Again
Image credit: Photo by Elizabeth The Queen Of All Things on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons For the past year and a half, I have been a regular contributor at the recovery website The Second Road. I learned today that The Second Road will cease operations this month. The content will remain available but unfortunately [...]
Different Strokes
Image credit: Photo by Darwin Bell on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My husband Mark, I have to admit it, hates fish. And people fish evangelize him all the time. I used to too, in my pre-vegetarian days, when a trip to the aquarium would make me hungry. The problem, you see, is never that [...]
My Word for 2010
Image credit: Photo by The Gifted Photographer on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Two years ago, I gave up on New Year's resolutions. What do those ever lead to but disappointment anyway? Maybe I keep them, but mostly I don't. And when I don't, I feel like a failure. So, I picked a single word [...]
Just for Today: Throwing Out the To Do List
Image by: catdancing on Flickr Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 After really struggling last week between my need to sleep and my desire not to sleep, I decided that this week on my day of spirituality I would spend one day throwing out my to do list and letting go of all the things I [...]
The Fall of a Sparrow
Image credit: Photo by Ashley Dinges on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I don't want to get up and I don't want to go to school!" my daughter Janie yelled when she heard me chime "Time to get up!" this morning. ("Well, maybe tonight you will go to sleep on time so you won't be [...]
My Sabbath Experiment
Image credit: Photo by adwriter on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Earlier this month, I decided I was going to set aside one day each week for spirituality and health, a sort of personal Sabbath. I picked a day of the week and made some rules for myself and set about my spiritual experiment. This [...]
