TheLavenderWolf

KidsChurch

We cycled through children’s pastors not too quickly but enough to notice. Children’s pastors resided over elementary aged children. Youth pastors were for middle school and high school. One children’s pastor was this young blonde woman named pastor Hailey who loved leading worship with a keyboard, that she wasn’t very good at playing. She wouldContinue reading “KidsChurch”

KidsKamp

Something I looked forward to was church camp. When I was a child, we would all go to a Christian College complete with dorms for everyone to stay in. There was a counselor for every room of kids. The boys bunked in a different building if course. I remember being in a room with aboutContinue reading “KidsKamp”

Dreams

My reality often seeps into my dreams. Nightmares invoke very powerful emotion, mostly fear and anger. And good dreams are usually of the supernatural and magical type. I enjoy those. It’s uncommon for me to dream about people that I know except for my family or best friends. They are randomly inserted into plots evenContinue reading “Dreams”

WhiteChurch

Once we moved to Sacramento and joined our 99% white “church family”, to my surprise, there was no praise dance team. I brought it up of course, wanting to start a group, but the church leaders didn’t know what it was and weren’t inclined to start a program led by an eight year old. IContinue reading “WhiteChurch”

BabyWolfDancing

From a young age, I possessed what they call, natural rhythm. I could pick up beats in music and move in time with them. By the time I was five, I could memorize and execute short routines. Lucky for me, I had plenty of opportunity to dance. Some of my earliest memories of dance wasContinue reading “BabyWolfDancing”

WhyI’mStartingABlog

When I was a child, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to create novels about love and drama and magic. Everywhere I went I had a book. The doctor, the dentist, car rides. To immerse myself in a book was like being in another universe. One where I connected with the main characterContinue reading “WhyI’mStartingABlog”

AboutMe

Why am I blogging publicly, rather than keeping everything in my journals? By putting these written experiences online, my diaries have purpose. I’m breathing new life into my experiences. I am taking back the narrative of my life. No one can control me anymore, not my parents, not God, not significant others, just me. MyContinue reading “AboutMe”