“Do you have a boyfriend?” One girl asked her friend as they bagged my groceries. “Yeah, I do…but I still keep my eyes open.” She said winking at her friend. My ears perked up when she said that. Since I blog for Girl Defined, I’m always interested in hearing what teenage girls think about life. […]
Where it all began. I was in sixth grade and knew exactly how to work it. Every girl at church camp liked the same guy and I was determined to get his attention. He was cute, popular and I wanted nothing less than for him to like me. I wasn’t interested in a relationship or […]
Three years ago I sat in a doughnut shop with some friends and had a conversation that I will never forget. I ended up in a heated debate over the topic of marriage and motherhood. My responses during that debate would mostly likely have been a shock to you considering what this Girl Defined: Getting […]
From the time they were born their families despised them. Their parents hated them and hoped they would die. These two feeble sisters were born into a poverty stricken home with barely enough food to survive. Not only were they starving, but they lived in a world of scary darkness. Both sisters were born completely blind. […]
You’ve heard the question asked. Your brothers, your friends, and your cousins have all had this question posed to them (or will eventually). It sometimes causes a sudden shuffling of the feet and anxious stares out the window. It’s the question which will never get exactly the same response: “What are you looking for in […]
“Hunched over his desk, penknife in hand, Thomas Jefferson sliced carefully at the pages of Holy Scripture, excising select passages and pasting them together to create a Bible more to his liking. The ‘Jefferson Bible.’ A book he could feel comfortable with. “What didn’t make it into the Jefferson Bible was anything that conflicted with […]
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