*Consider this your warning that I’m going to be using a LOT of ambiguous language here.* This post was inspired by a talk I attended tonight by an ecologist who talked about his conflict between science and faith. In the Q&A, I asked about his thoughts on the afterlife. I guffawed in appreciation at his […]
Author: Lisa
40 Days of Writing, Day 5: The Education of White Folks
As a person of color in the United States, the issue of white supremacy – and its infiltration in every kind of institution and system – remains quite clear to me. The issues can be complex, certainly, but sometimes, incidents of racism occur and reveal simple and forgotten points about the danger people of color […]
40 Days of Writing, Day 4: What Do You Wish You Would Have Been Told As a Mother?
There was a question posed to new mothers, “What do you wish you would have been told?” This was my answer. Much love and respect to Mai’a Williams and her endless barrage of transformative questions.
40 Days of Writing, Day 3: Generation X and the Changing Face of Friendship
The only thing I really miss about my 20s is the proximity to my friends. Even though my friends and I are the guinea pigs of social media like facebook and twitter, linkedIn and blogs…there truly is nothing like sharing your life with someone via face to face time. Being able to read someone’s face, […]
40 Days of Writing, Day 2: Feminist Perspective on Lent
I’ve been a catholic for 32 years. Every classroom that I ever received a degree from came with crucifixes on the wall and grace before meals. My parents are from the Philippines, the last country that still does not legally recognize or condone divorce. In grade school, I wrote essays on wanting to be a […]
40 Days of Writing: Day 1
My personal Lenten prayers and resolves live somewhere in my head and heart, but one thing I am sharing is my belief that Lent is a time of affirmation and growth. Is what you are doing bringing you closer to God? That is the question for me this year. All that I do, all that […]
Gendered Pain: A Free Write on Birth, Partnership and the Woman’s Body
There’s nothing sexy about pain. There’s nothing even remotely redeeming, glorified, cute, or remarkable about pain. I came into this realization quite quickly Sunday morning when I was dressing Isaiah for mass. I began lowering him to the floor, felt a horribly familiar pop! in my lower back and I immediately recognized that telling radiating […]
Here’s my Feministe Question about Radical Childcare
I’ve been a reader of Feministe for a few years now. It’s pretty much one of the few mainstream-ish blogs/sites that I pop my cyber head in for a check-in for women and gender news and updates. It’s not just the writers that provide news. What I find more telling about the temperature of mainstream […]
Mental Health and Sunshine
I was recently in California and was taken to wine country. From Ohio – where temperatures were in the teens and ice had sheathed the city of Cleveland – to this, a place of light, color, warmth, and flowing petals in the wind, I don’t know if I had smelled cleaner or sweeter air. And […]
5th Annual State of the Self Address
This is my 5th annual state of the self, a speech I deliver once a year on the revelations and reflections of the past year. Every year I have invited close friends and family to listen, but this year I decided on a much more private delivery: alone in a rocking chair with my son. […]