Archive for the ‘aging’ Category
To Cut or Not to Cut: Breast Reduction Surgery the Healthy Way
November 30th, 2011 by Jonalyn
I caught up with a co-founder of a non-profit in town to talk about her recent plastic surgery. Tara Chavarria and her husband run Christ for Life Sk8 Church a safe place for troubled teens to find community, hope and Jesus. Besides being a wife, mother and director of operations to Sk8 Church, on September 13 [...]
Tags: beauty, body, family, marriage, pain, sex
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Deaths of Playboys, Lives of Husbands
November 16th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Gunter Sachs with Brigitte Bardot – 1967 - Jean-Pierre Bonnotte/Gamma/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images I picked up the Wall Street Journal article “Death of the Playboy“ and learned that this author, Steve Garbarino was bemoaning their disappearance. The independently wealthy, smooth, womanizing playboys of yesteryear can be seen with topless models playing chess, in sports cars [...]
Tags: feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage, pain, vulnerability
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How Tina Fey Helped me Love My Body
August 31st, 2011 by Jonalyn
Do you know how many women say broad-minded things in public (Every woman is beautiful in her own way), but don’t believe it in their heart of hearts, at least not of themselves? Not of their body. I’ve been looking for a woman who knows how to face the funny facts of her body, laugh, own and [...]
Tags: beauty, body, feminin/masculin-ity, reviews, vulnerability
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Beauty will save the world
June 30th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Today I’m wearing a shirt from Image that says “Beauty will save the world.” Gregory Wolfe, who recently penned a book with this title, lifted this enigmatic phrase from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Nobel Lecture” who in turn borrowed it from Dostoevsky. I’m wicked tired, so I’m not really illustrating that with my haggard face, unless, of [...]
Tags: beauty
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Flat – Pre and Post Pregnancy Body
July 27th, 2010 by Jonalyn
My friend, Emily, cuts my hair at Off 7th Studio, Steamboat Springs. She and I were pregnant together and talked a lot about every stage and hope and fear. We worried together if pregnancy would turn us into women we wouldn’t recognize. Would we really fall head-over-heels in love with our babies? Would we recognize [...]
Tags: beauty, body, envy, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, loving Jesus, motherhood, spiritual growth
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Meditation on Turning Thirty
September 16th, 2009 by Jonalyn
The mist is slipping over the mountains like silk this morning. When I awake to see it and I know I am thirty years old today. Laying in bed, I listen to an elk call, a bugle that sounded at first like the ice cream truck. What is the ice cream man doing at 6am [...]
Tags: body, family, loving Jesus, motherhood
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Conversation with Molly Aley Part 1- Bodies and Aging
August 18th, 2008 by Jonalyn
There is a woman I’ve met online that you must know about. Her name is Molly. Here is her life in a nutshell: 1. girl meets God 2. girl falls into big fat popular pit of legalism, religion, condemnation and performance-based living and sets up camp there for almost a decade 3. girl meets God [...]
Tags: beauty, body
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