So many Easters. There's the western Easter of my protestant childhood, full of passion plays and easter lilies, new dresses and ham dinners. There's the eastern Easter of my adulthood, a midnight …
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My grandma died this morning and I'm trying to imagine the world without her. This is odd to me, and unexpected, because my "Gigi" (so named after she became a Great Grandma over twenty years ago) …
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This Spring has brought big changes to my life. I remember when I was a kid, growing up in the snowy white north of Upper Michigan, how Spring always revealed sleeping treasures. We'd spend Winter …
I used to post my children’s birthdays on Facebook. Collages of photos: my baby as an infant, my baby as a toddler, my baby missing front teeth, my baby kicking a soccer ball, my baby graduating high …
People who grow up without religious baggage fascinate me. Like, what did you do– just grow up and explore? And then decide for yourself what you believed from what you learned and observed? These are …
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The motto on the box says, "Lifelong transformation, one healthy habit at a time." It caught my eye on a day when I was grumbling about the plateau pattern in my weight loss goal. It reminded me …
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