What’s Your Why?
I recently read an online article by Ed Stych entitled “My High School Classmates’ Obituaries Taught Me to Love Them” ( https://tinyurl.com/y59ddy8k). It wasn’t the title that caught my eye. …
To Be Seen and Known
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” Elie Wiesel Weeks ago I wrote the words that became…
Moving On and Letting Go
My friend Denise tells me that I take things too personally. She’s right, of course. She’s always right. She listens to me as I talk of the latest thing that…
A Mini Memoir in Memes
Sometimes I see memes that really hit the mark and say what I can’t find the words for. Those of you who have read my blog know that it takes…
Many Positions Open Now
It’s the middle of June. Most schools are out for the summer and people everywhere are telling teachers how good they have it. I mean, they get the entire summer…
Take Me Away
“And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes…
In Remembrance: Rachel Held Evans
Instead of writing today, I’m choosing to share an interview from 2013 that Rachel Held Evans did with Red Letter Christians. If you have not read her work before, do…
There is a God. You’re not it. But who is?
I heard a good sermon last Sunday. Let me explain to you what I mean by that because “good” is one of those words like “nice” or “really” that has…
