Just The Way We Are
It’s just a word. Just one, small, single syllable word. And yet this word destroyed me at age 4, again at 11 and more times than I can recall in my 20′s. And here I sit in my 30′s, torn and bleeding around the wound the word insists on opening in me over and [...]
This is not a usual occurrence on Girl Body Pride. If you want your words shared with the world and for our audience to connect with what you have to say, your name had better be attached to the submission or it will simply be looked over. But there are always exceptions to the rule. [...]
I am watching Half the Sky. I am feeling the weight of the world in my heart. “…when rape is unfortunate but forgivable.” A quote from the documentary on PBS I learned about thanks to a Facebook message from Kelly “MochaMomma” Wickham in which actress and activist America Ferrera retweeted a message from Kelly [...]
“Aunt Heather, do you hate him?” It was my 11-year-old nephew asking the question about my ex-husband. I chose my answer carefully. “Sometimes,” I replied, wanting to be honest without providing too much information to a child trying to reconcile his Christian upbringing with his favorite aunt being a divorcee. “He would say mean things [...]
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