Archive for the ‘beauty’ Category
Smiling Too Much
January 3rd, 2012 by Jonalyn
We spent New Year’s in Pebble Beach at a dear cousin’s home. We walked Carmel’s beach and watched picture-perfect blond women walking scores of blond retrievers. Beautiful women, beautiful children, beautiful dogs. Some posing for pictures with beautiful teeth to add to the mix. We saw vacationers smiling next to the 17-Mile Drive Lone Cypress. [...]
Tags: body, motherhood, spiritual growth
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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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Learning to Pray – First 20 hours away from Finn
September 7th, 2011 by Jonalyn
The day had been planned for hundreds of days. I would leave Finn for over 20 hours, fly early, arrive back Late. And Dale would be the caretaker in charge and extended Finn detail. I had already been praying, but I enlisted our Soulation prayer team to cover me some more. Three weeks, the day [...]
Tags: beauty, loving Jesus, spiritual growth, writing/speaking
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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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Talking to Young Girls
August 10th, 2011 by Jonalyn
When you meet a little girl, one wrapped in pink tulle or a quirky, bold hat, what do you say? “What a fun hat!”, ”Look at your dress, you look so sweet in that!” Her blue eyes sparkle and I’m IN. They want to talk to me. All for an easily spoken, easily created compliment [...]
Tags: beauty, body, friendship
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Thighs this Summer and Curly Girls
July 22nd, 2011 by Jonalyn
I cut off an old pair of horse-riding jeans this morning. They’re short, even shorter when I roll them. Yikes! I checked out my short shorts (and post-momma legs) in our mirror. My legs, in the back, look like someone else’s legs. Not quite firm, not quite smooth, not quite tan. I’m sort of concerned. [...]
Tags: beauty, body, envy, feminin/masculin-ity, prejudice
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