I've been a mother of many home educated children, an entrepreneur with multiple hustles simultaneously running, and an employee with an omnipresent side dream. All of these incarnations came with …
Observations
Life Wins Despite the Cross. Does it Matter How Jesus Died?
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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You’ll Live to Be 100: Remembering the Brief Long Life of Viva O’Dell Ott
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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When the Universe Aligns: How Unexpected Changes Can Make Writing Dreams Come True
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 …
On Her Twentieth Birthday: How Talking About Infant Death Changes Over the Years
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 …
Religious Baggage: All You Who Are Heavy Laden
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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