for and finds herself in a club she wasn’t part of before the skip. Still, the heart of the story is Elise figuring out how to deal with her suddenly rearranged friendship scene – who she is without Melinda and Ivy and what it’s worth giving up to get back in their good graces....
Even now I try to act all breezy and cool, but I want a husband (even typing that makes me feel as if I’m betraying some ancient decree that a woman should never appear too desperate). I’m not looking for a four-year boyfriend. I’m in my late-20s. I know what I want. I ...
Whether you choose to put their gifts inside a fedora or a small gift bag, cheap party favors like beaded necklaces, feather boas and cigarette holders are always welcome. (And they make great accessories for everyone's New Year's Eve costumes!) Add some black and gold tissue paper or ...
000 other Episcopalians in the hot sun outside the Hutto Detention Center, a holding place for migrant women, many of whom had been separated from their children. The Center has been the subject of numerous allegations of physical and sexual abuse of detainees. The liturgy featured scripture ...
How often do we take time on Dec. 7 to remember Pearl Harbor and all the men and women who lost their lives? We can examine the differences, primarily the concept of mostly civilians to mostly military personnel, but both were acts of war against people not ready for the fight. Both su...
It still was not enough to travel from Kansas to New York for me, or for most of the other guys in my cohort to see their loved ones. I had to break this news to Robin. The Army has a way of forcing you to make these hard phone calls, of ripping the band-aid off. Getting ...
The Spice Girls: sexually empowered women celebrated in their 20s, but shunned in their 30s. The unwed and solo woman, empowered in her sovereignty- including, but not limited to, empowerment in her sexual and sensual expressions- is terrifying to society. I don’t think it’s that she is...