Tag: rant
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middle children
I was dealing with a bout of middle child syndrome that had flared up the other day, and was thinking about some of the {accurate} stereotypes regarding the outcomes of middle children in adulthood, not that we are all the same. In particular, I was thinking about how a colleague mentioned her middle son as […]
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goodness and glory
the eyes of all look to you and you give them their food in due season. you open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing. Psalm 145:15-16 It seems like a rank and hypocritical audacity to me for people in good health who are eating well everyday in electrified houses with clean […]
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17 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Brand Your Self . . .
Can I just say that titles like this make me cringe? ha. And then they make me defensive because don’t tell me how to live my life, thanks. And then I get on my soap box about how the very things we learned not to do in writing courses now herald allegedly scientific ‘study results’ […]
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on a Wednesday from Walnut Creek
I think it started with the robberies. A few weeks ago, the affluent, self-important residential neighborhood I work in fell victim to a slew of armed robberies. Allegedly, one woman was robbed at machine gun point going from her house to her car, a few other people were randomly robbed on the same street, and a […]
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a millennial mourns an inanimate intangible item
Hi my name is Bekkah and I average 4 likes a post on Instagram. I often feel like I was born into the wrong chunk of history. Cognitively and spiritually, I know it’s not true; I know that there is no such thing as ‘the good old days’ except for maybe the first three chapters of […]