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I’m Baaaack!

This has been a very long year for me, and all on top of all the disruptions of COVID last year. At the end of last November—for a “fun” way to end 2020—I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer. My primary … Continue reading

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On the Ride

Sometimes it seems like my life gets to be just a series of calendared situations where I run from one appointment, event, meeting to another with barely time to catch my breath. For a few months during the current pandemic, … Continue reading

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Focusing

When I was younger, I was so busy I just raced through my days, once in a while being stopped in awe by something I noticed, but mostly overwhelmed just trying to get through my days, filled with caring for … Continue reading

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A Women’s Story—Genesis 38

In the book of Genesis is found a multi-chapter tale that hangs together in such a way that it is described by biblical scholars as a “novella,” a short story about the man Joseph, hated by his brothers and sold … Continue reading

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Fallow Time

I wrote this nearly a year ago, when my life often seemed to be a daily round of appointments for this and for that, some social and pleasant, but some necessary, like medical appointments and household maintenance. But these days, … Continue reading

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Feeding Those Who Need Food, Then and Now

The New Testament contains five stories of Jesus feeding masses of people, some say four thousand and some say five thousand, who have gathered to hear him teach. Mark has two stories, one of each, and Matthew, Luke, and John … Continue reading

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Dictated to Me by My Cat Bridget—Her Story as She Remembers It

I always knew I wasn’t meant to be a barn cat. Yes, I was born in a barn, one of a litter of kittens whose mother had the job of keeping mice out of the barn and providing food for … Continue reading

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Holy Week Diary, 1963

When I was a teen-ager, in 1963, and a more traditional Christian than I am now, I wrote, in the week before Easter, an imaginary diary of a girl my age who lived in Jerusalem. I thought it might be … Continue reading

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My Father

I have had issues with my father beginning when I was a teen-ager, but now that he has been gone for many years to “another shore” as certain liturgies describe, I have felt those old issues healing, I have begun … Continue reading

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“Okay Boomer”

My daughter jokingly says “OK Boomer,” when I say something that’s dumb or reflects my age and generation. Others don’t talk about us jokingly, but actively resent us. I want to speak from the middle of the “boomer” generation. We … Continue reading

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