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Note to Former Self: It's Okay to be Still.
About ten years ago I was being treated by a physical therapist for a tight hamstring I had developed due to running. “Have you ever...
Thoughts on the Half-Mast Flag
I'm sitting across from my twenty-year-old daughter in an overpriced café in Athens, Georgia. She is holding onto a coffee cup with both...
When More than Your Bird Feeder is Empty...
I walk into my kitchen carrying generous bags of groceries. My blinds are open, revealing a beautiful, sunny day. It’s early autumn. I...
Why Does it Take the Worst to Find Our Best?
I hear the fear in my daughter’s voice over the cell phone Monday night. She was in Kingwood, Texas, smack in the middle of Hurricane...
TRY
TRY…On my 51st birthday my youngest daughter, Rachel, gave me a wooden plaque that simply said, “Try”. She was eighteen years old at the...
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