guilt Archive

  • Roller Coaster

    A year ago, I was living in a daze. I was spending most nights curled up against my 11 year old daughter's back as she lay on her side in her bed, willing her pain to dissipate, even hoping to absorb it myself.

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  • Guilty as charged?

    If there’s guilt to be had, I seem to want more than my fair share of it. I feel guilty about a lot of things. I feel guilty when my kids are late to school. I feel guilty when I don’t volunteer to bring homemade […]

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  • (Near) Death by Supposed-to’s

    I am realizing these days that I do a LOT of stuff because I’m supposed to. Mel calls this her “approval whore,” which is a hilariously apt description. I do a lot of things at church that I’m supposed to do. I do even more […]

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  • The Rituals of Sin

    Today on ‘The Sanctuary’ we’re very pleased to have a guest post from Krisanne, who writes at the Mormon Women Project, as well as  A Paper Moth and Bottari. A couple of days ago I watched Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, a documentary about an […]

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