I haven’t finished the laundry, and it’s not for a lack of trying. The piles keep piling, despite my best…
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Thinking
On Leaving Well and the Courage to Stay
My husband left his job with the company that’s fed us and clothed us and provided everything we needed for…
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All Shall Be Well: On Parenting
When my oldest trained for her life-saving course, they required her to tread water for long minutes, and when her…
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Pray Like the Dying
“I think that the dying pray at the last not “please,” but “thank you,” as a guest thanks his host…
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Let Your Life Speak
Around the time my youngest child turned two, when we lived in the thick of toddler tantrums, I began having…
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Walking One Another to Safety
The old man stood on the side of the road shaking a cane at passing cars. Cars traveled at top…
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