Last week my friend JJ the Blah Blah Blahger and I threw a party for our dear friend Sarah Bessey and her important new book Jesus Feminist. It was a rainy Thursday night in Hollywood, and I was worried that the weather and the traffic would keep people home. I shouldn't have worried. People showed up in droves, over eighty people all told. My favorite little cafe Coffee & Food was filled to the brim.
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Sixteen days into my self-imposed blog break, I woke up and realized I wasn’t doing it right. The break from creating content for this site was a relief, if only as an item removed from my To Do list, but I wasn’t fully doing what I had set August aside to do: listen. So I tweaked my tweaks, so to speak.
I am so tired of people telling me to put down my internet. Frankly, so irritated by people whining about Pinterest giving them perfection anxiety or bemoaning others’ facebook posts. I believe we know instinctively if we’re holding our phones more than our children’s gaze. Collectively, we can tell if online voices are shouting too loudly and we each need to power down for a bit. Why the constant guilt-sharing?
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(I promise this is the last time you'll hear about my birthday. Until next year.)
Occasionally, The Gorilla and I go big on birthdays. We don't exchange Christmas presents, Valentines and anniversaries are not usually celebrated with presents at our house, so birthdays are when we really shower affection on the individual. Not every year, but often. There have been some pretty epic summer parties. Including last weekend.
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