Posted by: Becca on: June 20, 2011
Sometimes it hits me hard, quick and hard, what I know about people’s lives now. That I know there are children that were systematically sexually and emotionally abused by their families. Children pimped out by their mothers for drugs. Children tied up in sheds fed like dogs. These sound like news stories, but the thing [...]
Posted by: Becca on: November 17, 2009
So, I have been minimally participating in the two challenges I posted about prior to this post. This month has not been as conducive to writing time as I’d hoped it would be. I have written some poems and started a novel. Barely started, but started. This is actually a pretty big deal for me, [...]
Posted by: Becca on: October 28, 2009
To begin, I will begin at the beginning. The beginning of my very first diary, at least. It’s purple, with pink ballet slippers and red roses with green stems all over it. The inside covers are pink, the pages- lined and white, with a place for the date at the top. There’s a little silk [...]
Posted by: Becca on: August 6, 2009
Feminism is…? Rebecca West: I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. [Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 22, 2009
I hate to sound bitchy or like I think I’m above others, but sometimes it really amazes me how dumb people are, in general, as a whole. Why? Why can I go through a whole day and feel like the smartest person I’ve encountered? To be perfectly honest, it’s tiring. Annoying. My family is tiring, [...]
Posted by: Becca on: May 17, 2009
As parents, the church instructs us to model the love of God through our love for and relationship with our children (and our spouses and really, ultimately, for each other all around). The reasoning is simple: in this way, our children can begin to grasp what it is to be loved by God. What it [...]
Posted by: Becca on: March 7, 2009
I went to the farm Tuesday, the day after it snowed. I forgot it was still there. I pass that road every day and act like because we don’t live there, because we don’t own it, it no longer exists. But it does. It’s not a person who’s died. It’s an ex. Who got married. [...]
Posted by: Becca on: January 29, 2009
Life list: Visit Ireland Visit Kenya Visit Switzerland Visit Peru Travel cross country on a train Go back to Yellowstone Go to Oregon Visit New Orleans Ride on a hot air balloon Hike part of the Appalachian trail Visit Italy Visit Greece Take pottery lessons Take dance lessons Take art lessons Visit New York City [...]
Posted by: Becca on: November 24, 2008
By Your Side: Tenth Avenue North Why are you striving these days Why are you trying to earn grace Why are you crying Let me lift up your face Just don’t turn away Why are you looking for love Why are you still searching as if I’m not enough To where will you go child [...]
Posted by: Becca on: November 4, 2008
I had to cancel 4 people today, spent 3 hours in DSS, booked it from Marshville to Concord, stopping in Charlotte midway to get Natalie to take her to a doctor appointment for which I was 45 minutes late. But I told them I couldn’t get there at four. I kind of exaggerated “crisis”. But [...]
