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Please, No More of the Virtue Signaling Wars
Enough is enough. When I was a kid and was driving my dad crazy, he would say to me, “Amy, you are driving me to the hilt of Gannilt.” It was his way of saying that I’d pushed him to the limits of his sanity. Lol. And now, I say it to my children. Well,…
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Does the Virtue of Justice Allow For All Sins To Be Seen As Equal in the Eyes of God?
Back when I was a counselor for victims of domestic and sexual violence, part of my job entailed going to court with victims. One woman I encountered had been using our services for years even before I got there. To save her privacy, I can’t go into details but it involved a bad rape case…
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Not Only Do I Ask That You Lie To Me, I Demand That You Do
You’ve all heard that if a woman asks if she looks fat in a dress, a man must never tell her the truth even if she does. The impression you get is that women liked to be lied to. Here’s the thing, deep down, we really don’t. Nobody really likes to have someone lie to…
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Would You Just Calm Down With All Your Piety Already?
When I was a little girl, around four and five, I had a best friend named Jessica. The day I had to move away, we vowed that we would always be best friends. My family moved about two hours from her and, as is normal, our friendship faded away like the Beatles on “Hey, Jude.”…
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But, I Haven’t Killed Anyone…
When I was in middle school, there was a classmate of mine that lived at the end of my street. I’ll call her Stacy. Stacy was awkward, shy, and one of those girls that blended into the background. The houses at the end of my street were the “not-so-nice” ones. She lived in a worn-down,…
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Q & A: How Do I Navigate a Relationship With Someone That Is Different Than Me?
I wrote last week about how I learned to love and forgive a family member that was completely different than me. Here’s that blog if you’d like to read it. From that blog, a question was posed to me. I’d like to take this blog to answer it. Question: How do you navigate a relationship with someone…