I know my 5-year old is exposed to other…forces outside my control. Children of the fundies. Kids that get out of the trucks with the confederate flags. Children that hear the N word at dinner. They play together at recess, because my daughter wasn’t raised to fear and avoid these kids, and at such a young age these little soldiers in God’s army don’t know yet that they’re not supposed to like her. We’re sure we can undo whatever is done to our kids during the school day. We can re-educate them. De-brief them. This might be a good time to mention that the superintendent of schools in this county does not believe in evolution.
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I think that’s where people are [...]
Last week when this whole drama at the clinic was unfolding I was chanting to myself “not-now-not-now-not-now” because I was fucking BUSY and I had a race to run and I REALLY did not have time to fall into a hole and I KNEW that’s where it was all headed.
Yesterday my first FB status read [...]
I did everything wrong leading up to my first race. I might have been a girl going to junior prom who bought her dress at Goodwill and had her blind grandmother do her hair with foam rollers. Do you want to know how many training miles I logged this week? One. How many miles I [...]
Continue reading about Pirates on the Run 5K-I’m Not a Virgin Anymore
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Instead I’m [...]
