Writing from the asylum

I have a board on Pinterest called Smiles, which started out as a nice little board with nice little inspirational sayings.  Somehow it’s morphed into a board of pins that make me laugh so hard, I weep.  Literally.  The other night, when I should have been in...

I laugh in church. Loudly.

Week One.  LJ Idol.  Buckle your seatbelts. Jayus–From Indonesian, a joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh. Back in the dark annals of history, I was the Baptist minister’s daughter.  I went to youth group.  I was on the youth...

Purple hair and author websites: This time, it’s real

Approximately twenty years ago (that sound you hear is me throwing up), my parents and I went to the American Baptist Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana.  We did this because we are American Baptists and, I guess, that was the time all the American Baptist ministers...