GG is very active on Twitter, and always has pithy responses to whatever is percolating about the 'tubes, and she has a great eye for must-see Internet snark. What brings her to the top this week is her very moving blog post on her coming-out as an atheist to her mother.
A taste (spoiler alert!):
Coiner of the term "geekysexy," full of what might be called moxy, she insists on her profile, "Curiosity killed the faith, not the sass." Good news for us all.
I had just told her I was an atheist. She’d listened to my story, and now she sat silenced, glossy-eyed, and buried beneath her thoughts. As I inhaled my food, I tried to imagine what she felt. Disappointment came to mind first. Probably a caring sort of pity, too. Perhaps she was praying. No, I knew she was praying. My mother always prayed. This is probably the first time she thought twice about praying aloud in front of me.
“I can see how it would be hard for you to deal with all of that alone,” she said.
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