Have you spent your whole life hearing certain rules repeated over and over again? I’m not talking about basic safety rules; I’m talking about the social rules that are specific to women. Rules about…
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In preparation for my annual “Word of the Year” post, I went back and looked through previous posts on this topic. I found it really interesting to see how my attention has shifted over…
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If you haven’t yet listened to Nadia Bolz-Weber’s phenomenal podcast, The Confessional, I want to start out by recommending it. In the email she sent out announcing this week’s new episode, Pastor Nadia told…
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-1- I was born on January 20th, 1964. Depending on which horoscope you’re reading, that birthday places me on the last day of Capricorn or the first day of Aquarius. (I’ve done the research.…
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Like most everyone else in the United States, we’ve been hunkered down at home for the last couple of weeks. I’ve been ordering groceries for curbside pickup and getting my classes set up to…
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We’re knee-deep in that post-Thanksgiving/pre-Christmas period that I not-so-fondly refer to as the Crazy Days. For me, it begins with giving and grading final exams. Then there’s the shopping, the social events, the rich…
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If childhood is the springtime of our lives, and the lazy days of summer are our teenage and young adult years, then surely middle age is our autumn. Abundant and meditative, autumn has always…