Category: Blog

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The Boy Who Loves Presents

My ten year old son loves Christmas. He talks about it all year ‘round, and is happy to play Christmas tunes as early as August.

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Pondering Covid

When [the shepherds] had seen [the baby], they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were

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On Awkward Space

I don’t know why I answered ‘yes’ when a woman on the second of three massive concourses at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American

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A Broken Advent

I have a really pathetic Advent candle situation happening in my house this season. It’s because the taper candles I bought are too big on

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Good and Pleasant

If you are going to spend the better part of eight hours watching a documentary on The Beatles, you have to count as something of

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A House Divided

The chorus and lyrics of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” kept rattling around in my head this week. I’m not sure if it

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My neighbors’ stories

Men, women, and children huddled in covered wagons crossing endless prairie seem to beckon all by themselves some hovering, mounted Native war parties up on

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