Welcome to the fourth day of the 2020 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Growth. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Creativity. I’ve been a feminist for about as long as I can remember. Even as a little kid I noticed… [Read More]
Georgia Wants Me to Change My Name to Ofdaniel
States across America are ready to force women to live in an oppressive regime not too dissimilar from the dystopian universe of The Handmaid’s Tale. In case you missed the reference, that book is the inspiration behind my title. Georgia recently passed the so-called “heartbeat bill,” outlawing abortion when a “heartbeat” can be heard… Except… [Read More]
Grief is Weird: I Still Mourn People I Barely Knew
Welcome to the fifteenth day of the 2019 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Heartache. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Strength. Last week, for the first time in four years of hosting the Love Blog Challenge, I didn’t have a blog… [Read More]
When Forgiveness is Abused
Welcome to the eleventh day of the 2019 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Forgiveness. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Compromise. Earlier this month I wrote a post on boundaries. I shared a few personal–but vague–stories of relatives who have violated… [Read More]
4 Ways to Connect to Your Faith Daily in the New Year
Have you set a New Year’s resolution to reconnect with your faith this year? This guest post from Ginger Tarkowski will help! Ginger is a wife and busy mom of two daughters who are her whole world. She enjoys spending time with her family as much as possible and loves to be outdoors. I hope her… [Read More]
Brett Kavanaugh, Rape Culture, and Feminist Fatigue
It’s been a long few weeks. A long few months. Two incredibly long years since Donald Trump was elected to office. I’ve been quiet on Instagram and on Facebook regarding this whole Brett Kavanaugh disaster. Twitter, however, is a different story. Retweets make it easy to share my thoughts, my feelings, my befuddlement, my rage…. [Read More]