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An All-Encompassing Love
As we come to one of our signature Hallmark holidays, Mother’s Day, I first want to salute all the moms out there. I know that my mother was the person in our family I could count on to buffer our…
Read MoreLord, We Do Not Know Where You are Going
When I was in sixth grade, I became a Boy Scout. That was a bit of a difficulty as they had a fee to be paid and my dad wasn’t interested in anything if it wasn’t free. Mom prevailed. I…
Read MoreThe Past is a Foreign County
We all remember the “good old days” differently. I can still see in my mind’s eye my mother pulling into the Richfield gas station in her ’48 Buick Roadmaster convertible. We’d hardly have arrived under the awning only to be…
Read MoreDestiny or Fate — Your Highway?
When I was sixteen, like many kids my age, I was more than excited to be going in to the DMV, prepped for the written exam and ready to get my learner’s permit. After I had waited for what seemed…
Read MoreNight Watch
When I worked for NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, I was sent to, among several places, Seattle, to look at some of the most effective programming being done to address the homeless mentally ill. Much of this work centered…
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