on burying what is good
“Mommy, look! I got a sweet!” My daughter’s excitement and voice escalated a full octave with the last syllable. I smiled as she toddled over to me that Sunday morning, grin and palm wide open, displaying her prize. Then she clutched her cherished piece of candy and...confessions of a hoarder
In the film, Eat, Pray, Love, the main character, Liz Gilbert, decides to spend a year traveling to Italy, India and Bali. Before she leaves, she boxes up all of her worldly possessions and packs them into a rented storage unit. As the employee is about to close the...what I learned from having a brain scan
After an initial appointment with my family doctor, I found myself sitting in an unfamiliar office, explaining my symptoms to a neurologist. Completely stumped, he concluded, “Well, the first thing we’ll have to do is get in there and see what’s going on. I’m going to...five words I say to my kids
My pastor spoke the words during one of his Sunday morning sermons, and the line stuck with me ever since. Standing in the crow’s nest pulpit perched on the right side of the sanctuary, he told the congregation what he would say to his girls every morning as he...why i’m grieving for someone i’ve never met
I’m know I’m going to cry when she’s gone. I can feel it waiting there, simmering and taunting the edges, about to boil over. A day is coming — and it might be soon — when I turn on my computer and learn that she’s gone. And I just know the tears are going to fall....
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