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Posts Tagged ‘envy’
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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Women and Their Wonderful Bodies
February 3rd, 2010 by Jonalyn
During one of the last golden days of summer I watched the sun illuminate a forest of changing aspen leaves. Each aspen glowed as a piece of God’s handiwork. As I sat into the silence I didn’t hear any aspen bemoan their figure or their hair or their height. God says he made the trees [...]
Tags: beauty, body, envy, loving Jesus, pain, spiritual growth
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An Interview with Tosca Lee
January 7th, 2009 by Jonalyn
As promised, an insider’s look into the woman who wrote Havah: the Story of Eve, a book I relished (read review), a book Publisher’s Weekly starred in their review. “A passionate and riveting story… Lee’s superior storytelling will have readers weeping for all that Havah forfeited by a single damning choice.” – Publishers Weekly I [...]
Tags: beauty, envy, feminin/masculin-ity, friendship, Gender Studies, writing/speaking
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Helping other Women- Ruby Slippers Review
November 4th, 2008 by Jonalyn
I picked up a Starbucks cup that had this pithy, gutsy little quote from Madeleine K. Albright (Former Secretary of State and Ambassador to the U.N.) The Way I See It #287 “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” Have you ever felt like this? I have. I [...]
Tags: envy, ruby slippers
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What Would Women Wear? a smattering of thoughts from two artisans
July 17th, 2008 by Jonalyn
I have a dear friend whose ability to spin the simplest of clothes into a fashionista’s outfit have left me feeling slightly envious. She’s slim, beautiful and gracious. I’ve come to count her one of my dearest friends. I love and respect her for more than her clothes. I’ve come to value her mind, her [...]
Tags: envy, loving Jesus, politics, reviews
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Ciara’s "Like a Boy"
June 18th, 2008 by Jonalyn
Last Spring I went to the Steamboat Springs Dance Theater and watched a troupe of women dance to Ciara’s R&B number “Like a Boy” (watch the music video). As the song begins she looks at the audience, covered in tatoos and bling diamond rings, chains looping her skinny neck and spits out, “It’s 2007, ladies, [...]
Tags: envy, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage, sex
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Why Isn’t America Ready for a Female President?
March 12th, 2008 by Jonalyn
For over a year there’s been quite the buzz over Hillary Clinton’s potential for presidency. Newsweek’s Kathleen Deveny writes in “Just Leave Your Mother Out of It” that as much as she hates to write it, “America is not ready for a female president . . . It appalls me. It goes against everything I [...]
Tags: beauty, body, envy, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, politics
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