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Gentle etching

Featuredby Laura G Owens Leave a comment

My child is changing places with me. Her first nerves awaken my jaded awareness. First license. First unfixable sob, soon. Each transition a tip toe into doorways. Learn to say […]

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Family, Motherhood, Poetry

Comply – a poem in my father’s voice

Featuredby Laura G Owens Leave a comment

I don’t tremble they assume I’m Katherine Hepburn’s kind but she and I will always have our Parkinson’s mask of frozen stares. My shuffling gait halts yet refuses my wife […]

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Family, Life Unscripted, Poetry

Ballast

Featuredby Laura G Owens Leave a comment

My father and my daughter sailing summers ago on a Catamaran in Anna Maria Island, Florida. My father was what I’d describe (and he’d humbly hate) Soave Bola; Ricardo Montalban […]

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Family, Life Unscripted

Black pastors and the gay community: moment of impact

Featuredby Laura G Owens 2 Comments

In the process of deciding what God is for us, whether as an unwavering faith to the literal Word or we’re drawn to the Divine as felt through our own filter; […]

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Cultural & Social Issues

The Dragonfly and I: The Mystical Symbolism of an Ancient Insect

Featuredby Laura G Owens Leave a comment

I’ve been drawn to dragonflies the last two years. Vast symbolism behind this beautiful ancient winged-creature has appeared across continents and cultures. Bugs and I have a largely innocuous relationship, […]

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Life Unscripted, Spirituality

Bed alarm

December 10, 2019by Laura G Owens Leave a comment

I don’t tremble, but they assume I’m Katherine Hepburn’s kind. We share our Parkinson’s frozen mask, expressionless, involuntary deceit of emotion. My shuffling gait halts while I calibrate my balance, […]

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Aging out loud

November 24, 2015by Laura G Owens Leave a comment

A few weeks before every birthday I try to get used to my upcoming age. I say the number out loud and slip it into conversation. Last year I said, […]

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Cultural & Social Issues, Life Unscripted

I’m one drop Italian and so, Italian.

May 5, 2015by Laura G Owens Leave a comment

I’m Italian-American, only one-quarter Italian, one drop. But that’s all we need to decide who we are, one drop. “… Barack Obama has become the most high-profile personification of the […]

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Cultural & Social Issues, Family

You are enough

January 28, 2015by Laura G Owens Leave a comment

All of us it seems, have two voices in our head. The critical nudge who insists we’re never enough, that we find a new job or new relationship or lose […]

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Thanks, but I’m fat.

January 13, 2015by Laura G Owens 2 Comments

            My daughter complimented me on something the other day, my hair, the color of my shirt, something forgettable except that I remember the moment […]

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Cultural & Social Issues, Life Unscripted

Holiday patience. Have some.

December 18, 2014by Laura G Owens Leave a comment

I heard a radio host talking the other day about how we all need to be patient during the holidays. He said essentially, listen, everyone’s in a rush, everyone’s trying […]

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Life Unscripted, Spirituality

Jesus and Jello

October 3, 2014by Laura G Owens Leave a comment

Image credit: Wikipedia   Excerpted from my essay “Jesus and Jello” I was raised with a la carte religion, a buffet line of a little bit here, a little bit […]

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Life Unscripted, Spirituality

God, Guns but No Gays? My Letter to This Kentucky Business Owner

May 10, 2014by Laura G Owens Leave a comment

  Image: Wikimedia Commons I just sent this email to this Kentucky business owner. I’m HORRIFIED his family received death and rape threats for his store policy, but I’m also […]

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Motherhood sucked the life into and out of me.

January 30, 2014by Laura G Owens Leave a comment

When my daughter was born  in 1998 she sucked the life out of me. I don’t think twice about saying this. I say it with more confidence and gusto now […]

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Family, Motherhood

The head shaking moments. Finding muddy love

November 20, 2013by Laura G Owens Leave a comment

That’s all we have sometimes, some version of The Golden Rule and muddy love – Laura In the category of “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” topics that make you […]

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