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I've been married 10 years to Dale Fincher, an old soul who makes me feel young and brilliant. We’ve lately had a son, Finn, who we love baby wearing

Seven years ago Dale and I co-founded Soulation. a non-profit dedicated to helping others become more appropriately human. Dale and I work as a speaking/writing team.

I love watercolor, snowshoeing, cooking and reading. Favorite movie to impress you “The Lives of Others”, favorite movie on a Sabbath is "Last Holiday", favorite book Mansfield Park. At the moment we're watching Mad Men, 30Rock, The Office and Dora the Explorer.

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Ashley Judd Gets it Right

April 11th, 2012 by Jonalyn

“The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.” –Ashley Judd Ashley Judd recently wrote, “Patriarchy is not men.  Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate.” I could not agree more. Patriarchy is held in place at least partially by women. [...]

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Who do I look like? Listening to The Hunger Games

March 28th, 2012 by Jonalyn

My mom hung a little cream placard with blue letters in our kitchen. Growing up I’d read it often, “You are who you are when no one is looking.” It plagued me with confusion about who I really was.  The me in private? or the me in public? In the movie, Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen [...]

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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 [...]

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What Corset Will You Wear This Holiday?

November 23rd, 2011 by Jonalyn

I used to love them, their hourglass shape. But corsets and I have a longish history of ambivalence. Their point is to re-shape, re-curve, re-move. As if our natural shape isn’t good enough.  In “Femininity Beyond Fairy Tales” (from the introduction of Ruby Slippers) I make a list of the corsets we wear: the invulnerable athlete, [...]

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Theology, essays, sexperts and novels on my nightstand

October 12th, 2011 by Jonalyn

I’ve come across some books you need to know about, places my soul stopped, places others who want to walk into more freedom will find some refreshing water. These titles were not sent to me seeking endorsement; I didn’t get them for free. Rather, I bought to pore over them. Each deserve a full post [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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