No answers here.
Religion has always been a large part of my family life. My father was ordained a deacon in the Roman Catholic church in 1983, when I was eleven years old. He and my mother spent the three years prior to that attending seminary several nights a week, and before they ever made that decision they [...]
March 4, 2011
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Jen · 
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Tags: fate, living out loud · Posted in: faith, family
There, I’ve got it all sorted!
One by one, my vices have fallen by the wayside. Used to smoke, yes indeed. Smoked in college, first cloves, then regular cigarettes, then cloves for a long time. In fact if offered one today I wouldn’t turn it down, but it’s such an occasional thing it doesn’t count – like a free sample at [...]
November 6, 2010
· Jen · 6 Comments
Tags: living out loud, vice · Posted in: Uncategorized
The ones that got away.
When I was a senior in high school, my friends and I liked to take the D.C. Metro down into Georgetown. We would go down and have lunch and mainly window-shop, because Georgetown isn’t exactly known for its bargain basement deals. My favorite thing to window-shop for was boots. There were a few good boot [...]
April 1, 2010
· Jen · 15 Comments
Tags: life, living out loud, self, shoes · Posted in: Uncategorized
Closing Time
Over the years alcohol and I have had a very on-again, off-again relationship. I don’t often examine it but for the early years of my adolescence (by which I mean “until I was about 23”) I was fairly prudish and had some very conventional ideas about how life should go. They were basically modeled on [...]
February 1, 2010
· Jen · 14 Comments
Tags: booze, living out loud · Posted in: Uncategorized
