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Life in Z-D
What’s Better – Loving Yourself or Loving Others?
Have you ever had someone tell you: "You can't love anyone until you learn to love yourself"? And did you want to strangle the person who told you that? Though that wouldn't be very loving, would it? Yes, it's true that if we don't love ourselves, it's difficult to...
Why Affirmations Are a Trick. And Why It’s Okay to Be Fooled.
Have you ever affirmed something? Maybe you employed the technique of visualization. Maybe you stood in front of a mirror and recited affirmations. Maybe you cut out a bunch of pictures and put them on a vision board. Or maybe you just focused your mind on a...
What a Mormon Woman Taught Me About Truth and Clothing
How do you respond when someone tells you how to dress? Like most people, I'm resistant to the idea. It reminds me of being five years old and being told to dress up for a party. Or being in seventh grade and having to wear the dreaded gym uniform. (Mine was a unitard...
Why Numbers Suck. And What You Can Do About It.
How do you feel about numbers? Do they scare you? Does the phrase "Solve for X" make your skin crawl and your toes sweat? Or are you a geek who embraces the numerical world with all the enthusiasm of a child on Christmas morning? Oh boy! Pythagorean triples and...
Why Marriage Matters
Are you one of those kids who dreamed about your wedding day? Or were you more into playing kickball and eating ice cream, unencumbered by such trivial fantasies? Throughout my childhood, I was solidly in the second camp. I never once had images of myself in a fancy...
What the Grasshopper Has to Teach Us About Shame and Rebirth
Have you ever been misunderstood? Have you ever had someone not get you at all? Have you ever been snubbed or judged unfairly? The grasshopper knows your pain. While some insects get all the glory (cough**butterflies**cough), others are forever shunned from the Insect...
Why I Changed My Name to Z
How do you feel about your name? Do you absolutely love it? Do you jump out of bed every morning because if someone asks you what your name is, you get to say, "My name is [insert awesome name here]?" No? It's not like that? Perhaps you're ho hum about your name. You...
The Terrible, Horrible Thing That Happened After My Book Reading
Have you ever lost perspective? Like, blown something out of proportion? I've been known to do this occasionally. If by occasionally, you mean daily. Over time, I've become more tempered in my reactions, less likely to blow things out of proportion. Most of the time....
My Guru Has a Tail, Episode 4: The Evil Fountain
How do you react when something new enters your environment? Do you embrace it wholeheartedly, with a smile on your face and a glow in your heart? Do you ignore it, pretending it's not really there? Or do you try to eradicate it by any means necessary, resorting to...
When Is the Right Time to Make a Change?
When it comes to making major changes in your life – or even minor ones – how do you know it's the right time? Do the clouds part, and a choir of angels sings to you in perfect harmony, "Now! Now is the time!"? Or does a bolt of lightning shoot out of the sky,...
Wanna Do the Best Experiment Ever?!
How do you know if something is true? Do you take someone else's word for it? Or do you need to prove it for yourself? While I rely on others for advice and information, there's no substitute for personal experience. Especially when I need to be convinced that...
It’s My Book!
Before I was a minister, I was a fiction writer. Before I was a fiction writer, I was a fan fic writer. Thirteen years ago, the television show "ER" had a lesbian subplot, and that subplot inspired me to pick up a pen and start writing "fan fic," or fan fiction. (Fan...