10 Real 5-Minute Recipes at Munchbrothers.org

Cold Cuppa: A Review of the Toddy cold brew coffee system at Munchbrothers.org

Safe Haven Fallout? We’ll Never Know! (Commentary on Baby Safe Haven laws) at Dualtriadian.com

How to Write a “Housing Wanted Ad” for Craigslist at Hubpages.com

Enjoy!

So What if the Kid Just Doesn’t Like You? A commentary on “attachment therapy” and the death of Candace Newmaker.

How to Support Your Favorite Bloggers

How to Lose Weight In Spite of Yourself

Cheap and Healthy Breakfasts for College Students

How to Get Your Daily Coconut Oil

The first of my new blogs, Dualtriadian.com is now up and running. The focus of Dualtriadian.com is on adoption issues. Please do stop by and have a look.

Also, I have posted an article on Hubpages about eating out whilst on a diet.

More soon.

I’ve been blogging on and off for close to a year now, and this blog has certainly seen its share of twists and turns. Originally created to share my writings on Christianity (especially the missional movement), I also wrote about Asperger’s Syndrome, as well as suggesting various resources for people in ministry. Unfortunately, I had to take the whole thing down back in January due to some very serious personal circumstances and an Internet stalker of whose I identity I am still not certain (though I now know that it wasn’t who I thought it was, very cloak and dagger, this).

I re-launched the blog a few months ago, though my still-insane personal life had made regular updating difficult. Then, about two months ago, I suffered a particularly devastating betrayal that not only left me reeling but also robbed me of the ability to engage in any sort of formal writing. This experience has also left me in a different place spiritually than I was when I started the blog.

In any case, it is time for me to start blogging regularly again. I am, however, going to be making some changes in this blog and its content. For one thing, most of my blog posts have tended to be in “article” format. The trouble is that writing articles takes a bit of time and delays regular updating. The other problem is that I enjoy writing on a variety of different topics, and it seems that the most successful blogs are more specialized. So this is what I am going to do:

*lainiepetersen.com will remain as my personal blog. I will post both updates from my day-to-day life (which I generally haven’t done in the past), as well as longer screeds on spirituality, theology, psychology, personal insights, etc.

*I have already purchased several domains which I will be using for more specialized blogs on adoption, Asperger’s Syndrome, resources for clergy, etc. Expect to see them introduced here over the next few weeks.

*One day a week I will do a “roundup” post on lainiepetersen.com which will have links to the posts on my specialized blog sites. Readers on this blog will be able to pick and choose which, if any, interest them.

*I am continuing to give unsolicited advice on Hubpages. Please do pay me a visit there.

I hope this all makes sense. I know it sounds ambitious, but I like a challenge now and then.
Peace out.

Heads up, fellow bloggers! TopRankBlog.com, features a list of RSS directories that you can submit your feed to. Thanks to Shalini for tipping me off to this great resource!

And then it all came crashing down around me.

I won’t go into any great detail, except to say that I made some very, very bad choices. While I have been told that I am my own harshest critic, the fact remains that several of these choices not only caused a great deal of pain, suffering, and humiliation for myself, but also for several other people. While none of these “bystanders” were entirely “innocent”, none of them deserved to experience what was to happen (and is still happening). When things got particularly bad, I took the blog down and tried to hibernate for awhile. Things proceeded, in some ways, to get worse, though there are certain aspects of my life (yes, connected with the aforementioned events and choices) which continue to bring me great joy.

Things are not good now. There are relationships that are damaged beyond repair. The old evangelical chestnut of “repent, rinse, repeat” isn’t going to get me out of this situation. Time might work to lessen the pain of the wounds, but I suspect that some of them just aren’t going to heal. Ever.

Still, though, I need to write. I also suspect that there are those who need me to write. And so I shall. Though I am going to do my damnedest to avoid characterizing this blog with the current trendy labels of “missional” and “emergent” and, perhaps at least for awhile, “Christian”, though I still am a follower (a very bad follower) of Christ.

In any case, thanks for stopping by. More soon.

When I started this blog I committed to posting regularly, and for the most part, I have done so. Unfortunately I have both been out of town and dealing with some issues at work, and my posting has had to go by the wayside. Even more unfortunate is that I committed to two synchroblogs that I have yet to make my postings for.

In any case, I am re-committed to posting as I should, and I want to extend my thanks to all of those who have visited and supported this blog over the past several months. I look forward to interacting with everyone soon.

P.S. I will be making my sychroblog posts very soon, but here are the links for those who want to see the other great blog postings for each project:

Brother Maynard’s Advent Synchroblog

and

The December Synchroblog

Recapturing the Spirit of Christmas at Adam Gonnerman’s Igneous Quill
Swords into Plowshares at Sonja Andrew’s Calacirian
Fanning the Flickering Flame of Advent at Paul Walker’s Out of the Cocoon
Lainie Petersen at Headspace
Eager Longing at Elizaphanian
The Battle Rages at Bryan Riley’s Charis Shalom
Secularizing Christmas at JohnSmulo.com
There’s Something About Mary at Hello Said Jenelle
Geocentric Versus Anthropocentric Holydays at Phil Wyman’s Square No More
Celebrating Christmas in a Pluralistic Society at Erin Word’s Decompressing Faith
Redeeming the season — season of redemption by Steve Hayes
Remembering the Incarnation at Alan Knox’ The Assembling of the Church
A Biblical Response to a Secular Christmas by Glenn Ansley’s Bad Theology
Happy Life Day at The Agent B Files
What’s So Bad About Christmas? at Julie Clawson’s One Hand Clapping