I’m Not in Love with Jesus Anymore
Gone are youthful days of weighty sighs and swoops of passion focused upward toward a deity I could not take down from the throne. A little jesus reduced to an idol with no voice on a man-made pedestal. A false god I invented to suit my needs left me spent and breathless. Yet Christ has […]
Becoming Beautiful
For many years I didn’t know I was beautiful. I felt so different from other girls and women that I assumed people would stare at me because I was weird, not because I was intriguing or pretty. I had curly hair, and I wanted it to be sleek and straight. I was short and curvy […]
Curly Queued: Quick Hair Tutorial
As I’ve mentioned before, I have wrestled with my Latina hair for years: tugging, straightening, relaxing…poor fluffy poof! It has taken many years to learn how to tame my hair without completely erasing my ethnicity and damaging it in the process. I have to say, there’s a message here for all of us: You […]
Winter Blah’s: 4 Fashion Fibs Debunked
I don’t know about you, but this weather is dragging me up and down with each random peak and pit of the temps. One day it’s below zero, the next it’s fifty-five degrees. The earth is so bipolar right now. Couple that with the anniversary of some difficult life events: my father’s death eight years […]
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