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A Summer Dress Code

by | Jun 1, 2012 | culture, Faith, Parenting

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario and Saskatchewan. What is the appropriate dress code for summer? How do we bring back class? Twenty years ago a building in Blackburn, England was scheduled to be demolished....
Hot vs. Pretty

Hot vs. Pretty

by | Jan 13, 2012 | body image, Parenting, teenagers

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario. Here’s this week’s, which was inspired by a post I saw at Traditional Christianity on the difference between sexy and beautiful. When my daughters were little they...
Modest Should Not Mean Dowdy

Modest Should Not Mean Dowdy

by | Aug 4, 2011 | body image

Modesty is a big “buzz” word on Christian women’s blogs. We’re all supposed to want to be modest (which I agree with), but often the definition of modesty is something which I find completely unreasonable, and rather off-putting. A friend of...

One Hot Mama

by | Jan 7, 2011 | body image, Marriage

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario. Here’s this week’s! And I just want to add, it is the first time I have ever used the word “bazongas” in print. I think it works in this context,...