Category: Blog

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For All the Saints

We played a lot of catch. During the last year of his life, my dad could hear very little, and what he heard, he couldn’t

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Raising Kids, Duggar Style

As an avid watcher of all sorts of reality television, particularly anything related to American religion, I’d been on the lookout for Jill Dillard’s memoir,

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Each Shard Still Shines

Luminous Shards There’s a rectangular stained glass lamp that sits near my desk in my study. It’s had a place there for years. My wife

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Twelve Years Old!

Talkative. Funny. Getting smarter. Able to move beyond literalism. Increasingly concerned about physical appearance. Having a strong need for affirmation. These are the traits of

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God of Sorrows

The world is a bleak place these days.  Long about the time one had gotten used to having an abiding sadness and sickness over the

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Aging Gracefully

The Bachelor has been on television for more than twenty seasons. I watched the early seasons with my roommates in college, but quickly lost interest

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