As a young teacher I was so committed to changing the world, I assigned, Writing to Change the World by Mary Pipher as my students’ reading. I had bought into…
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My website hasn’t been functional for composing since Christmas and I’ve need to write without anyone looking over my shoulder, so that’s why the silence this past month or so….
(I wrote this for CBS This Morning when they challenged us to write a note to ourselves at twenty. Since they didn’t pick my essay I thought I would post…
As you know I struggle with overwhelm on a regular basis as well as all that open time that comes with retirement. Recently I read Andi Cumbo-Floyd’s new book Love…
I think about dying often now that I’m on the other side 60, the year my mother died. Since I’m one of these people who likes to get things done…
Many people see the year turning, sigh, and say they truly hope the next year goes easier on them. There have been many years where I longed for a better year….
“Don’t tell me what to do. I know what to do. I don’t need to feel any worse about my abilities than I already do,” she said, with an honesty…
Here is a short devotional that was published in the devotional booklet In The Breaking of the Bread at three local churches: Bethlehem Lutheran Church, First Lutheran Church and Salem Lutheran…
I’m so sorry for your loss. By looking at you, I see how tears have washed your face. I was in my late twenties when my mother and father died,…
I started sorting clothes fifteen minutes before the clothing drive ended with visions of hauling my jumpers and skirts off the hangers and stuffing them in garbage bags. I…