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Someone had placed a tomato cage over the smooth dirt that hid the turtle’s carefully prepared nest.
Caroline J. Simon
June 17, 2026
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Someone had placed a tomato cage over the smooth dirt that hid the turtle’s carefully prepared nest.
Before I left, I changed the dressing on Bill’s arm. The raw tenderness of Bill’s new fistula moved me. How could its strangeness have come
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I think churches—not just big box churches, but all churches—have something to learn from trampoline parks.
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What would it mean to have the meanest man in the world, a person hostile to causes that you were deeply committed to, as a
I was recently in church when a man in the congregation stood up and said, “Look, I know you are all going to disagree and