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Nov 6, 20244 min read
Wasted Time
Recently, I traveled out of state with my litigation team, and I returned home just in time to celebrate my birthday. As a birthday gift,...
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Sep 18, 20242 min read
Apostate Mixtape
“Don't ask me how I survived. Ask me what song I played on repeat when I thought my whole world was over.” Was there a song that...
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Jun 17, 20244 min read
Becoming Apostate
As a Witness, was there any worse epithet that could be hurled at you than, “Apostate?” “Brother or Sister Informed have turned...
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Apr 1, 20243 min read
Dogma vs Daughters
How many of us received invitations to return to a Kingdom Hall to attend the one religious sacrament that our JW family members and...
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Feb 4, 20243 min read
Adulting Without A Safety Net
The post on a social media page for former fundies was as earnest and melancholy as a plaintive wail. “It has been 8 years since I...
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Dec 25, 20232 min read
Season's Greetings
Children reared by devout Jehovah’s Witness parents do not learn any family Christmas traditions. There are no Christmas cookies for...
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Oct 25, 20235 min read
Becoming Worldly
“{T}hey are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world.” John 17:14, New World Translation. Jehovah’s Witnesses interpret...
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Aug 18, 20231 min read
Thriving after Fading
Meeting other ex-Jehovah's Witnesses and learning how they have navigated rebuilding their authentic lives has been such a rewarding...
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Aug 7, 20235 min read
Dealbreakers
For those of you that were either born into a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses, or were converted, you decided, at some point, that enough...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
No Longer Silent: Sharing My Story on the Podcast, Broadening the Narrative
Broadening the Narrative Podcast | Nicki Pappas
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Jun 25, 20237 min read
Shiny, Happy Women
Did you watch Shiny Happy People on Prime Video? If not, it is a must-see for PIMO and former Jehovah’s Witnesses. Shiny Happy People is...
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Feb 26, 20231 min read
Call Me Vashti to Be Featured at The Songbird Supper Club on February 28
I am honored to be invited by Winston-Salem artist and founder of The Center for Female Sovereignty, Cashavelly Morrison, to join a...
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Feb 15, 20235 min read
The Past as Prologue: What Florida’s Stop Woke Act Means to Me
It is effective political theater, the conservative Florida governor standing in front of microphones vowing to the Moms for Liberty that...
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Dec 21, 20224 min read
Tis The Season to Be Conflicted
Tis the season… to be conflicted if you were reared as a Jehovah’s Witness. Even today, there is a stark contrast between the joy that...
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Nov 22, 20225 min read
Lemons or Lemonade – Reclaiming My Story in TheHumanist.com
Lemons or Lemonade – Reclaiming My Story - TheHumanist.com In her classic novel, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison exhorts, “Stop sniveling....
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Oct 18, 20221 min read
Virtual Book Launch at 7p.m. EST on Friday, October 21, 2022
Webinar Registration - Zoom
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Oct 12, 20221 min read
Drumroll, please....
My pandemic project became a manuscript and now my manuscript has become a novel, Sunless and Silent and Deep. Buy your copy today!
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Aug 1, 20223 min read
Lemons or Lemonade?
What have you lost? If you were reared in a Jehovah’s Witness family, you were denied normal childhood experiences - birthday parties,...
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Jul 7, 20222 min read
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Who am I? What do I believe to be true? Those basic questions are the impetus for faith deconstruction. Who are you? If you had asked me...
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