Are you there, God? It’s me . . . the girl who never shuts up.
My minister tells a story about deciding, as a little girl, that she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up. In fact, if I remember right, her realization was that she needed to be one. So she wrot
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parenting and other cruelties
It’s like this: Silas, a tiny imp at three, hair like a supernova, blue eyes lit with mischief, turns away from my gentle chiding and walks slowly, purposefully, down the hallway. His newly three-yea
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rocks, rivers, and rough transitions
Tonight I attended an incredibly inspiring presentation from our church’s Lifelong Learning Task Force. Together, a diverse team of leaders shared a vision of religious education–for kids, for adults
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don’t talk to strangers (listen to them instead!)
Last month I took an intensive course in Unitarian Universalist Congregational Polity–and heard something from our instructor that frightened me: “Unitarian Universalism as we know it isn’t going to b
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Sanity NOW! (perhaps yelling helps?)
These are my babies, Si and Ren, at our church on Easter. On the one hand, I love this picture. My boys look like their handsome, irrepressible selves on a beautiful spring day in a place that means
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