When I was in college, I shared a dormitory floor with a variety of personalities from bold and brash to shy and intimidated. My personality fell into the spectrum of quiet and introverted, so for little small town Iowa me to venture out into the world of bigger town college ...
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Teens & Chat Rooms By Joel B. Chat rooms have become a real problem for teens these days. Come to think about it, chat rooms can even be dangerous for adults. You never know who’s lurking behind that well thought out moniker known as the “screen name.” Is she really ...
Read More »God did not Create Young People to be Bullied
Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead! When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them ...
Read More »Modesty Part I: A Flower Is More Beautiful With Petals
As a little girl, I would often role play my future and imagine what it would be like when I get married. Part of my role-playing would include a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Not something that was dead and wilted, or losing it’s petals, but fresh, handpicked Lillis of the ...
Read More »A Letter for My Courageous Son, Nathaniel
Dear Nate, Sometimes your quiet demeanor makes it difficult for us (Mom and me) to understand what’s going on inside your head. We never want to make you feel uncomfortable in expressing yourself to us, so we tend to keep our questions and conversations short. We figured the day would come, ...
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