As we were driving to church yesterday morning, I saw Rebecca Campbell‘s post about connecting with Mother Earth on Instagram. I thought about how interesting it is to be connected to a woman half way across the world. She and I putting a message of connection out into the Universe all because I read her…
Monday Mayhem – Formalize the Soapbox
This morning I was guest lecturing in a class at 6 AM my time (yes I am sleep deprived, this may ramble). One of the students asked me how to formalize their soapbox. And I thought, “THAT IS A GENIUS QUESTION!” There are 4 ways to really solidify what you want to say so that…
Eff Sh*t Up Friday – I am a prickly pear
Reasons to be angry: Boys will be boys unless they are black boys and especially if they are Brett Kavanaugh. A woman is beaten every nine seconds in America (Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit, 2014). NINE SECONDS. NINE SECONDS. The Corvallis School District in Oregon is considering cancelling dances for high schoolers because…
Monday Mayhem – 3 ways you can stop making excuses right now!
Excuses. Everybody has them. I make excuses all the time. My husband will get mad, my kids will be upset, my friends won’t understand. They create a special kind of paralysis for nearly all of us. Excuses. Everybody creates them. They keep us in the place where we don’t have to step out, step into,…
Eff Sh*t Up Friday – Watching her was hell
Watching her was hell. I was just so sad that this is where we are as a nation. Dr. Ford should never have had to come forward because Kavanaugh should never have come this close to the supreme court. I didn’t even know what informed consent was at 16. I didn’t know I could fight….
Monday Mayhem – Making Meaning out of Sexual Assault in the age of Trump
I have been trying to make meaning out of what is happening in our Nation. Why the public reaping of women? Why the evisceration of our very existence? Why does no one believe what we say? I wrote my #WhyIDidntReport on Facebook this week and women by the dozens shared their stories on my thread….
Eff Sh*t Up Friday – One Liner Nuggets of Joy
Lately I have been coming up with some really delicious one liners that I have written in my journal or said on podcast interviews. Today I wanted to share my one liner genius with the rest of the world. I hope these quotes inspire you like they inspire me! “We have to start trusting…
Monday Mayhem – Yesterday I did a thing I SWORE I would never do
I did a thing yesterday that I swore I would never do. I got baptized. This is a loaded word for me. A complicated word. It is a sentence that I never thought I would write or speak of as an adult. It freaks me out to be telling you so publicly. It feels like…
Monday Mayhem – Facilitating Joy While Speaking Truth to Power
On Friday and Saturday, I co-facilitated a workshop with a local pastor and folks from the Department of Public Health and the Department of Human Services. The topic was homelessness in our town of Corvallis. This is the first time that I have heard this group of people laugh together, usually they are yelling at…
Eff Sh*t Up Friday – When your hate mail is a backhanded HELL YES!
Tomorrow and Saturday I am co-facilitating a workshop with anyone from our community that wants to participate. There was even a nice little article in the paper about it that one of the ladies from church emailed me so I wouldn’t miss it. The homeless issue in Corvallis is DIVISIVE. There is no real shelter…
