This blog is an irreverent look my mid-life “emotional growth spurt.”
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Detained Immigrants: Their Hope and Despair in One Photo
A life force distorted by captivity. Just like the asylum seekers I visit in detention. That was my first thought upon seeing these photos of the incarcerated trees from the…
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New Jersey DACA Rally: Standing Strong with the Dreamers
I find myself taking baby steps towards political activism. It’s one thing to write about people who are political protesters (see stories on Mahmud and Abu). It is another to…
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How to Create a Mexican Sunset in a Glass
Today is National Margarita Day and I can’t think of any better way to celebrate than by creating a Mexican Sunset in a Glass. On my last visit to Cabo, Mexico,…
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One year after Detention: Launching a Daring Men’s Fashion Line
You never know where a friendship with an asylee will take you. My friendship with Asylee TJ Hyde, landed this Modern-Day Church Lady front and center at a menswear show…
Meet The Modern Day Church Lady: Dorothy Wetzel
I call my blog, “The Adventures of a Modern Day Church Lady,” because being part of a “progressively minded” church has been one of my greatest sources of inspiration for my growth spurt. Church takes me on adventures—intellectually, spiritually and literally—bringing me to places I would never go on my own, like Haiti, Sierra Leone and even jail. My worldview is ever expanding.
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