Brazen Princess
Brazen Princess
- Birthday
- December 28
- Bio
- A passionate and transparent look at life in full time ministry from my eyes: An American in South Africa. My secret dreams are made known, confessions are public, and all the in-between happenings come alive in this: a page of sharing.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Knowing My Father
May 21, 2012 02:54AM - Female Circumcision, No Baths
& Shaving Heads Reduces HIV
May 14, 2012 01:30PM - Teach Me How to Have Fun (Even
When I'm Hurting)
May 12, 2012 09:18AM - Sharing Joe
May 11, 2012 05:10PM - On Becoming a Mother - or "How
I Never Got What I Wanted"
May 08, 2012 10:28AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “So I HAVE to know,
Matt...how do you know so much
about her??
No one on OS
knows…”
May 25, 2012 04:03PM - “"By then the list of
things we weren't allowed to
say
included things we
wer…”
May 25, 2012 03:58PM - “jlsathre~ What A
beautiful comment and a good
reminder...
Scanner~
I am in "t…”
May 21, 2012 05:12PM - “Amy, while you do make a
hilarity out of something
that
aggravates us all at
time…”
May 18, 2012 01:05AM - “I'm ending my day by
watching it...it was worth
it!”
May 17, 2012 11:45AM
Brazen Princess's Links
- Our Family
- Lessons for Clueless Mother-In-Laws
- Why I Loved Chuck Colson
- To Each His Dulcinea
- Valentine's Day (and other things that disappoint me)
- Love
- Black Pearls
- Holiday Fat
- Africa
- Malaria and Medicine
- Eish!!
- Death of a Teacher
- To Commit or not to Commit
- A Tale of Two Sudans
- Diepsloot Without Water
Knowing My Father
My favorite pictures of my Dad and me are decoupaged to a canoe oar that is in my parent’s entryway. The pics were chosen by sister, Colleen from the wealth of camping pictures we took every summer on the Ryan family vac
… Read full post »Female Circumcision, No Baths & Shaving Heads Reduces HIV
My excellent friend, Pindai, a woman of statuesque beauty and honourable reputation posts things on her facebook page that makes me think.
Today, an unfortunate press release from a Zimbabwean senator, Morgan Femai , woke me up and threw me against a wall. He
… Read full post »Teach Me How to Have Fun (Even When I'm Hurting)
If it were not for David, I think our family would not have gelled together the way it did. When I married Mario (as I wrote yesterday) he came complete with David and Joe, two kids that stole my… Read full post »
&n… On Becoming a Mother - or "How I Never Got What I Wanted"
&n… Read full post »
The day Alicia was born I had pancakes at Lyon’s restaurant on Clover Road in Tracy.
The doctors had sent me home because the pitossin drip had not worked (could have fooled me, it sure felt like la… Read full post »
Insanity
"Listen carefully," he said, "this won't be easy for you to hear"....
I waited.
“This is the only broom we use in this space.”
I looked at it. It was impossible.
“And the place needs to be swept every day, or else she’ll fire… Read full post »
Finding My Right to Cinco de Mayo
My history as a fourth-grade teacher usually colors the way I see most holidays. In the classroom, my favorite thing to do was to say "Let me tell you something that the other teachers won't tell you..." It made the students pay attention, and made them feel that… Read full post »
AMERICA: From Where I See It (Lefty's Open Call)
Old New Lefty “open-called me out” to write this, and so I answered, with a different view. What he had to say was definitely valid, and I heard him strongly. Here is my answer to this call, word for word…compare it to Old New Lefty’s&… Read full post »
Gandhi - A love story (?)
Alysa wrote about her favorite love story of all time in a movie – Cyrano (I agree, the story is very romantic). There are so many love stories that picking one out from a Hollywood movie is difficult.
The one I would choose is one that is a… Read full post »
Lessons for Clueless Mother-In-Laws
I still remember the day that David, our oldest son, met his wife-to-be. I was upstairs on the phone and Mario was downstairs, and we were listening as he was telling us about a date he had with a pretty young lady named Lennae.
I was… Read full post »
Why I Loved Chuck Colson
In the house where I grew up, there were things you were not allowed to joke about: the Virgin Mary, the Holocaust, and John F. Kennedy (and then maybe all of the other Kennedy’s, except for Jackie who had gone off and remarried a Greek tycoon). Now and then… Read full post »
To Each His Dulcinea
Our friend, Luke, left our house after a heavy conversation on our back porch with Mario. The guys came through the kitchen just to say goodbye, but I knew that Luke had just had a gut-wrenching purge and was ready to go home to his wife. Mario… Read full post »
South African Township of Diepsloot without Water
A twenty-five liter bucket is the main unit that people use to store water in their homes in the township of Diepsloot. Since most areas have only community water that residents share, most water comes from a spigot outside that provides water for bathing, washing and dri
… Read full post »Silence
Somewhere in the difference
The chirp of nine hours-
I am losing you.
My visit to the moon
Is my fault, you say.
But in the silence your face, a tender blush -
Reminds me that your heart
(so fickle)
will go to another
If I am not… Read full post »
Screenplay: How to become an EDITOR at Open Salon
When Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995, no one forsaw the impact it would make on the world of e-mags. It's "baby", Open Salon magazine covers a variety of topics, from reviews and articles about politics,music, books, and films. It also has articles about… Read full post »
Not a Face-less Conflict: A Tale of Two Sudans
Sudanese Kids carry bricks to help us build the school base in Padak
There is a feeling that you get, albeit a fleeting one, when you have done a lot of work in another country and you hear about the country in normal conversation somewhere else. The feeling is
… Read full post »You're so Beautiful-and other stuff we're supposed to say
Samantha (on the left) with her French husband Pascal Rubinatin
It is a fairly common practice among women that if someone is your friend you should compliment her beauty. After all, w… Read full post »
Life is fragile, precious, and ours to enjoy
Life Fourways in Northern Johannesburg - you can see, very first-world hospital
Happy Birthday, Mom
Caroline Marie - my 33
1. Your main trait: Beauty
2. The quality you like best in a woman: vulnerability
3. The quality you like best in a man: integrity
4. Your main flaw: pride
5. Last time you cried: before I started taking anti-depressants.
6. Ideal job: living it
To Commit or not to commit...when there is need.
Hlanganani Mentoring MeetingLetter to a New Reader on OS
Most of you know I'm working on something right now. Besides that, I have just a little time here.
A friend wrote to me - a friend who is new here- and had a concern for the content. What she had heard was that Open Salon was a community of writers.… Read full post »
Why I Can't Write to You
Once you were
In my mind
My younger, only, charming, shining,
Never-will-mess-up, never-will-fail
delightful
light
leader
I am now supposed to write
to you on the inside
I am afraid
that my words will sound foreign , caged, nonsensical.
They will
because they are.
My thoughts are… Read full post »
Valentine's Day (and other things that disappoint me)
Valentine’s Day and I have kind of a love-hate relationship. On one hand, I am a romantic at heart and I love good, unexpected love stories. On the other hand, I see the day as a set-up (mainly for men to become oozing, sappy wimps who spend… Read full post »
Brazen Princess's Favorites
zanelle
OS Weekend Fiction Club
Chicago Guy
Jennifer Prestholdt
FusunA
Neha KamdarUpdates
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My Memorial Day Post to the Warriors I have Known
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Sometimes you see her crying in the grocery store
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The War Whistler
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Picasso in Kandahar
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The Wolf Just Beneath the Surface / OS Weekend Fiction
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VIDEO: "BOWLED A STRIKE" BY MELVIN G. FROMM JR.
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An Animated Version of the Dark Knight Returns
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A Personal Look Inside the Walker Recall
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