Embracing Our X-tradordinary

Erik “Magneto” Lehnsherr: “You want society to accept you, but you can’t even accept yourself.” Last weekend, I went to see the X-Men: First Class movie with my friends because (a) that’s just how I roll and (b) James MacAvoy and Michael Fassbender in the same movie? Um, YES PLEASE! It’s a great movie (very [...]

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Ordinarily Extraordinary

“Perhaps – rare though truly extraordinary may be – there is no such thing as simply ordinary. Or perhaps there is always the capability of being extraordinary, buried inside any ordinary being.” I’ve been reading a book, titled, appropriately enough, Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin, and it has my thinking about what it means to be [...]