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Posts Tagged ‘motherhood’
How to be Mom Enough
May 11th, 2012 by Jonalyn
A mother gives a child her place in this world. We are all walking tableaus of how we were raised. Even the woman on the cover of Time’s most recent desperate cover (desperate in media stunt to usher women into a more mommy war), she tells us about her mother. What? well you’d have to [...]
Tags: feminism, motherhood
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Eating an Orange: Women and Food
February 22nd, 2012 by Jonalyn
I sat with an unpeeled orange in my lap looking out over the snowy hill. I could see the spot where we buried Lady Lucia, our oldest, loveliest corgi’s body (The Day Lucy Fell Into Shadow), the earth a little more scarred from the effort of digging a grave in the winter (Digging) I suppose [...]
Tags: body, food, marriage, motherhood, pain, sex
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Practical Rest: When Busy Women Welcome Sabbath
February 1st, 2012 by Jonalyn
You know I care about resting, that I try to practice Sabbath rest. But I don’t practice faithfully or consistently. In other words, I’m always looking for better ways to practice rest. One reader of RubySlippers, a woman I met at a speaking engagement in New Hampshire recently explains how she rests. As a mother [...]
Tags: family, food, motherhood, spiritual growth
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When Men Fall: Vulnerability as a Prerequisite for Heroes
January 25th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I believe that our beliefs about our humanity, our femininity and masculinity directly affect what we will do, how we will grow, how we will fail and how we will recover. I’ve only 200 pages left of Daniel Walker’s “God in a Brothel: An Undercover Journey into Sex Trafficking and Rescue” (these are iPhone pages, [...]
Tags: feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, loving Jesus, motherhood, reviews, sex, vulnerability
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New Year Wantings & Co-Parenting Safely Through Rapids
January 11th, 2012 by Jonalyn
Dale doesn’t think new year resolutions are all they’re cracked up to be. I tend to disagree, mainly because I’m a lover of opportunities to change in grandiose ways, ways I can write about and check up on. Dale is a changer in bits and pieces, he’s also big on changing when the need arises. [...]
Tags: envy, family, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage, motherhood, spiritual growth
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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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Gifts of Vulnerability for Christmas
December 21st, 2011 by Jonalyn
To my faithful ~ Dale and I have come to a deeply practical, life-giving understanding. I look forward to sharing in a future post how our new set-up has changed all of us, including Finn. This turning of a new leaf will be an appropriate bit of sharing for the New Year. For now, I [...]
Tags: friendship, loving Jesus, motherhood, vulnerability
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