What I Thought Going In I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I picked up American Spirits by Barb Rosenstock. The book is marketed for teens, and I’m way outside that demographic. Plus, I had mostly convinced myself that the Fox Sisters were complete frauds. Yet Barb Rosenstock pulled me into their world in a way that few authors ever do. The Fox Sisters: Frauds or Human Beings? I have to admit—I hated Leah, the oldest of the ...
Backmasked: Ozzy, Faith, and the Life I Was Denied
I suppose nothing would horrify my mother—or my childhood church—more than seeing who I am now. While they were busy preaching about satanic panic in the '80s and '90s, they never imagined that the frightened little girl in their pews—the one they warned so often about demons and damnation—would one day grow up to be a 43-year-old woman, writing her very first blog post about deconstructing Christianity… by talking about Ozzy Osbourne. Yes, ...
