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Hurry up. Finish work. The kids will be asking what’s for dinner. The wheel is turning So run faster. Except… no. It’s just echoes now. Do we have pens/loose [...]

Full disclosure: this phrase is kicking around my head lately because my son made one request for his birthday celebration: that we watch one of the Lord of the Rings movies with him. There I [...]

It is said that mothers shouldn’t play favorites, not even cat mothers. If that’s the case, I am probably a bad mother. And, well, maybe something of a crazy cat lady. When it became [...]

The other day, I was flummoxed by this suggestion: describe yourself not in relationship to anyone else, or to what you do. I thought. Hmm. The first descriptors that came to mind were out: [...]

These have been a tough few weeks for me. Heck, things haven’t felt right since 2015, when the carnival atmosphere of the election kicked into gear and got progressively, excruciatingly darker as [...]

It is an impossibly, heartbreakingly, stunningly gorgeous day. I am called to words as the devoted are called to song. In worship. In awe. Renewed, and made whole again by a thick blue sky, a [...]

If you’re a regular reader, you may know I’ve been despairing about everything the migrant crisis at our border means: childhood trauma with lifelong consequences, pain, and a [...]

When I was a kid and first exposed to Anne Frank’s diary, my first glimpse into the horrors of the Holocaust, everything seemed really cut and dried. Of course Miep and the others would [...]

I have been grappling with with what I could do about the situation at the border, beyond calling and donating and crying. I’ve been trying to turn my sadness and frustration into action. That’s [...]