Category: Blog

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Fannie Lou Hamer, and Me

Seems to me you have to cut LBJ some slack here. The man didn’t ask to be President. Didn’t run for it. Came into it

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Feral

They ran the brush-hog late along the edge of the prairie. Winter-rank fuzzy stubble stems bristled from a beating off with a dull blade. An

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Nunc dimittis

I’ve written here before about my long years never decorating for Christmas–I was busy, I travel every Christmas, it seemed like too much work for

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Life amid the ashes

Cara and I went home last summer to see my dad. Going home is different since my mom died. We’re navigating new territory and creating

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The NFL is Rigged — And Other Lies

I shouldn’t have been surprised—but I still was—when I started hearing people claiming the National Football League is “rigged.” We are less than a week

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Flooded with Memories

I recently returned to Grand Rapids, my hometown, to visit my family. I love walking the streets of my childhood when I visit. I walk

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A Tale of Two Sisters

A few months ago, I listened to Jill Dillard’s memoir Counting the Cost, and this month I followed it up with her sister Jinger Vuolo’s

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Naming My Sin “On the Ones”

Steve and I have been friends for over 50 years. We shared many childhood experiences—youth football, Mackinaw Island with the Boy Scouts, the grade-school bus,

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