Just The Way We Are
As I write this, my just turned 9 year old daughter is sleeping beside me, curled up and making sleep sounds. We are still in that post Christmas stupor and I’m feeling a bit strange that this was the first birthday and Christmas that the daughter wanted absolutely no toys whatsoever. Her list to Santa [...]
by C.J. Redwine One of the questions I get asked most often at signings is why I chose to regress women’s rights in the city-state of Baalboden in DEFIANCE. I’ve heard everything from anger that I would regress women’s rights to fascinated interest in looking at a society where girls are treated like property and are [...]
Yup, you read that right. Words do matter. It starts with one moment and gets paid forward – snowballing until tomorrow’s emotional health is wrapped up in words from so many yesterdays before. My current work as a bilingual child & family therapist and mental health advocate began with kind words. My 7th grade [...]
Something happened this morning. I can’t really explain it, but I had spent the morning reading books, working on a proposal, and doing my social media for Little Pickle Press, and then I decided to check in on Twitter. Nothing big, really, and that’s not normal for me this time of day but I’m [...]
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I don’t envy girls growing up today. Considering I came from the era of “Three’s Company” and record ratings for the Miss America pageant, that’s saying something. But we weren’t constant consumers of media like today’s youth, surrounded every moment by ads of airbrushed women and over-sexualized video games and TV shows. Sure, we saw [...]
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