I grew up three turns and around the bend from a tiny, local zoo. I wrote a little about it…
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Celebrating
One Word: Embrace
Happy New Year! I’m welcoming myself back to real life this week with a loaded schedule of errands and miscellany….
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To hold longing
I hand-picked the peeling birch branches we cut off the dying tree in the backyard. They’re white and spare and…
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Five ways to survive the season
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” ~Jane Austen Reviewing the holiday calendar has an opposite and…
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While shepherds watch their flocks by night
We visited Israel this year, and our guide, an Israeli Jew, was unable to take us across the Palestinian border…
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Post-turkey talk: on parenting
Thanksgiving came and went in a whirl of highway miles, streaked with snatches of conversation we caught between mouthfuls of…
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