The Great Art Escape

I had every intention of going away for the weekend. I hadn’t decided where. Anywhere but home. The week had overwhelmed me. I was sinking into depression, fatigue and irrational thoughts.
A lot of the stress came from a medical treatment my husband had on Wednesday. It’s a type of chemotherapy that’s still experimental for multiple [...]

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Amazing Grace

Okay, I know this title is not the most creative or original. However, it is entirely fitting. I cannot begin to explain the ways I have received amazing grace in the past few days.
After writing about my secrets on a previous post, I have been overwhelmed with messages from friends near and far. I published [...]

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The Problem with Secrets

In Frederick Buechner’s book, Telling Secrets, he recounts experiences in his life he has hidden out of fear and shame. The take-away message for me, as I read the book, was that when I lay bare my secrets, a certain freedom comes with releasing them to the rest of humanity. When I reveal these secrets, [...]

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From the Suburbs to the City

It’s been nearly a year since we moved from Suburbia to the City. When I tell people we live downtown, I get some raised eyebrows, lots of questions and a few encouraging comments. It seems so natural that we moved here. But it wasn’t always that way.
It all started when we sent our kids to [...]

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This is How I Know

Several years ago a co-worker told me, in the nicest way possible, that I was conceited. She loved to get into deep conversations about the world and various philosophies. She told me that she was open-minded, yet she could not accept that there was such a thing as a personal relationship with God. She would [...]

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You Had to be There

We’ve all told those stories. The ones we think are so funny. The ones that we start to tell and gauging by the look on the listener’s face, you can see that it’s really not THAT funny. The kind of stories that bring you to these words, “You had to be there.”
This story may be [...]

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In Search of Bon Bons

Today was one of those days. You know, the kind when all you can say is, “Today was one of those days.” The day when you feel overwhelmed. Or the day you wish you had stayed in bed. Or the day you were searching for something, or perhaps lots of somethings, that you could not [...]

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