Tag archive: identity
Dear Sex,
A from-the-heart commentary. February 2, 1998 Dear S-E-X, I am scared to say your name. Teacher says it’s a bad word so I don’t want to get in trouble. I just figured out what you are today. You’re gross. Mommy… continue reading »
disillusioned
A few months ago I thought it’d be really cool to be disillusioned with the world. I wanted to be like a post-WWI expatriate or like Franny Glass from Salinger’s novel. I pictured myself in a bar drinking a Shirley… continue reading »
the antiblog.
I used to be honest-gut honest-without fearing what people said or thought about me. When I was an underclassman in high school, I posted blogs about how much I loved God and how Satan sucked. (And I said it quite… continue reading »
Refine hate and love, fall afresh on me. End this crisis of identity.
It turns out I don’t know who I am. I thought I knew; I thought I had everything figured out. I was wrong. Amanda and I were talking about identity, how college is the time where you find yours. I… continue reading »
Stand and Feel Your Worth
Wake, stand and feel your worth, O my soul. Feel and know the word that can save us all. At Sunday school and at youth group we’ve been talking about self-image: how we view ourselves in relation to how we… continue reading »
worthy
I put myself into the category I think most women put themselves in. I feel as though I am too much… and yet not enough at all. Does that make sense? I push myself, I make myself known, I take… continue reading »