Confession: My husband and I* cannot navigate in Holmes County. *We are together for better or for worse. Otherwise I might have to point out, as I did in the moment, that it wasn’t I who … but I digress. It doesn’t help that all the roads were originally cowpaths. Cows are great at finding […]
Confession: You already know this about me–sometimes I write about caterpillars when I can’t write about cataclysm. My grandfather is dying today (my only grandpa, pillar around which my earliest memories twine), and my sister is in the ER for the third time in a week (my only sister, oh my sister). I hold this
I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God. I wonder what it is like to stand before 10 people with 1,000,000,000
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Do you ever play with church names in your mind? There are so many out there. I like the ones that start with “Church of…” They make my imagination run wild. Church of the Cross Church of the Nativity Church of the Covenant Church of the Open Door Church of the Living Hope Church of
…after attending a Christmas banquet. Sometimes I am filled with a desire for hysterical laughter at the least opportune of times, and for no apparent reason; such as right after arriving at a fancy party. I am not entirely sure who this Shari Zook person is, but her name was on my place card, so…
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Confession: I’m not so good at members’ meetings. They seem to be a two-hour plunge into human folly. I don’t like the tedious agendas, set by our poor wonderful hard-working pastors. I don’t like the controversy, created by our strong truth-loving parishioners. I don’t like the chaos, produced by our lively kids weary of too
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In September I posted a letter I wrote asking to be excused from jury duty for reasons of conscience. Some of you pushed so gently back on me, and I would like to explain my position further, listening more to you if you have more to say. Please hear this with the love I feel.
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We got to her house late, knowing she would be gone anyway. She left us a message of where to find the key, though she had never met our family before. We unlocked the door in the dark and silence, stepping into her lovely home for the first time. We made our bumbling way to
My friend Janelle Glick is back, after having spent significant time this week researching and pondering. Here are her concluding thoughts and questions. Plug in! She writes– ***** Confession: Sometimes my statements of practice are built on comfortable ignorance. So I spent some hours this week reading about the origins of Halloween. I read articles
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