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Love through a new lens
My parents have only seen me Crohn’s-sick once, and I’m in no hurry to put them in that position again. I had gone home for a funeral, and started to feel ill at the wake. That night was not a good...
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The fragrance of grace
It was nearing midnight and the groom was at the grill, slight perspiration developing above his still-fastened tie. We sat around the fire pit, abandoned by the other wedding guests, the bride’s glow...
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Radical self-care
Sneaking a nap Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. – Audre Lorde I read that quote recently and it resonated for two reasons....
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Little loyalties, to Christ and to all
I’ve never been a very good friend. I’m the type of person who expects to be able to pick up where a friendship has left off, regardless of whether I have picked up the phone in the interim. I have a...
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The vocation of singleness
I have to tell you about my vocation to the single life, but I don’t have much time. In a few short hours I will be married, and no single person will ever be able to relate to me again. Before I met...
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A new family – my guest post for Woodland Theatre Company
I’m guest posting on the Woodland Theatre Company blog about our upcoming production of Titanic. How long since we first met? Has it been three days or four? So sings Bandmaster Hartley during one of...
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The Perilous Journey – A guest post for Woodland Theatre Company
I’m guest posting again on the Woodland Theatre Company blog about the production of Titanic that opened last weekend and continues this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. As family lore has it, my...
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Why we ruined our wedding pictures
“Honey,” I said a few months before the wedding, “everyone says that we should make lists of our priorities for the wedding so that we know what the each other’s non-negotiable are.” There had been no...
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All the ways we shimmer
Why does it take so long to figure out what is good for us? Why are we in our 20s before we realize that greasy pizza makes us feel yucky the next day, or that too much coffee makes us jittery? Why do...
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The shower and the snow
This time last year I was home on medical leave, and my soon-to-be-husband was working morning shifts. He would wake around 2:00 am, which didn’t bother me much since I had nowhere to be. We’d chat...
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Coming out of the dark
I hope I don’t die in the spring. I remember exactly where I was when I had that disconcerting thought. I was driving with the sunroof open through the busiest intersection of my urban neighborhood,...
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The thing worth chasing: on saying goodbye to a friend
I get awfully emotionally seeing the people I love receive the Eucharist. When I was quite ill with Crohn’s, before surgery put me into remission, I was often unable to stand through mass. I would...
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Little loyalties, to Christ and to all
I’ve never been a very good friend. I’m the type of person who expects to be able to pick up where a friendship has left off, regardless of whether I have picked up the phone in the interim. I have a...
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The vocation of singleness
I have to tell you about my vocation to the single life, but I don’t have much time. In a few short hours I will be married, and no single person will ever be able to relate to me again. Before I met...
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A new family – my guest post for Woodland Theatre Company
I’m guest posting on the Woodland Theatre Company blog about our upcoming production of Titanic. How long since we first met? Has it been three days or four? So sings Bandmaster Hartley during one of...
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The Perilous Journey – A guest post for Woodland Theatre Company
I’m guest posting again on the Woodland Theatre Company blog about the production of Titanic that opened last weekend and continues this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. As family lore has it, my...
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Why we ruined our wedding pictures
“Honey,” I said a few months before the wedding, “everyone says that we should make lists of our priorities for the wedding so that we know what the each other’s non-negotiables are.” There had been no...
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All the ways we shimmer
Why does it take so long to figure out what is good for us? Why are we in our 20s before we realize that greasy pizza makes us feel yucky the next day, or that too much coffee makes us jittery? Why do...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The shower and the snow
This time last year I was home on medical leave, and my soon-to-be-husband was working morning shifts. He would wake around 2:00 am, which didn’t bother me much since I had nowhere to be. We’d chat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Coming out of the dark
I hope I don’t die in the spring. I remember exactly where I was when I had that disconcerting thought. I was driving with the sunroof open through the busiest intersection of my urban neighborhood,...
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