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Heather’s No Good-Horrible-Terrible-Very Bad Day(s)
I am seriously pissed off. My bad day started yesterday when two different friends confided that they’re struggling with insensitive husbands. Now, my marriage, as many of my close friends and all of facebook knows, is so far from a Saturday afternoon picnic that it doesn’t actually include any picnic paraphernalia at all, except, perhaps (…) MORE »
In Media Res
I always wanted get born to be a place where participants could be unresolved without judgment, where conflictedness is our reality. I wanted it so desperately because it was and continues to be, what I need, sometimes more than breath.
Easy Schmeasy
I’m five months into my second round with active cancer. When I was first diagnosed in 2008, there was immense pressure, both internally and externally, to “make every moment count, as if saying count in italics, or with an italisized voice would make it stick. My inner voice, “HEATHER, make this moment count, dammit, even (…) MORE »
The Boundary
I do not know you. But we sit next to each other on an airplane. I comment on your cute kitten heeled pumps and you compliment my bag. We debate whether a series of back to back business meetings warrants a $6 glass of crappy red wine and the vote is unanimously ‘yes’. As you (…) MORE »
New Incarnations
It’s difficult to write this blog post, both because I’m overwhelmed with anticipation and excitement for what’s in store for get born as an entity, and because it’s a culmination of a tremendously complicated inner process for me. I’ll back up. Raised as a missionary kid in Ecuador, South America, I wholeheartedly embraced the evangelical (…) MORE »
News of and from get born
It is with unimaginable grief that I write this letter. I cannot continue the endeavour that has become get born any longer, and because the magazine, in spite of great fan adoration and excellent content, has failed to support a staff, there is no one else able to carry it either. I started this journey (…) MORE »
