desert_vixen, you have got to read this one. I gave it four stars instead of five for the very eighth-grade writing style. This is the harrowing autobiography of a woman who grew up in the Colorado City, AZ FLDS cult that Warren Jeffs later had moved down to Texas. Carolyn was a rare and gifted exception to the FLDS rule in that while she was married to a ( Read more... )

I've been having weird-ass dreams these past two nights, probably because I'm sleeping in a really warm room away from home. Last night, I had this dream that had two intertwined storylines, but I'm not sure if they were the same one, or one with the memory of the other or what ( Read more... )

An OB/GYN posts her thoughts on the preemie Duggar and Jim-Boob and Jichelle's statement about being open to more ( Read more... )

From a bulletin board entitled "A Quiverful of Snark". I know you already can't resist, DV ( Read more... )

For desert_vixenIn the beginning, there was http://myblessedhome.blogspot.com. Then there were people who objected to the anti-Catholicism of it and Visits to Candy was born, done by Catholic apologists who wanted to answer Candy's crazy statements about the faith ( Read more... )

...And she loves dem wacky fundies...

http://stevenandersonfamily.blogspot.com/

Scroll down past photos of the ugly baby to the "Women in the Military" article off our old friend "Ladies Against Feminism". She actually posted my comment. I'm impressed.

miafeliz commented in my last Christian Taliban entry that the modesty movement drives her up a wall. So this link is "A Week In Feminine Dress" from http://lily-maiden.blogspot.comRead more... )

Or even those of us who aren't much persuaded anymore ( Read more... )

Today I'm wearing an ankle length denim skirt. You know what? It's dang comfy. I can run for the bus in it and everything. You know what's the only thing I don't like about it ( Read more... )

A while ago I posted about Candy Brauer, who runs http://myblessedhome.blogspot.com . I mentioned that I liked her despite her biblical fundamentalism because of her great recipes, interest in natural foods and libertarian outlook ( Read more... )