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Coping with Grief

My thoughts on prayers. “You and everyone else has given me their prayers. These prayers don’t seem to be working at all!” My older, very outspoken neighbor said this to me yesterday when I...

Adversity’s Syllabus

Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how.’ Viktor Frankl “Why does everything I do as a parent feel so impossibly hard?” I sobbed as I posed this question...

The Ripple Effect

Events can take on a life of their own…though not always on our timetable Do you ever feel those days where you can’t get outside of your head? The days you are dragging, going...

The Paradox of “This too shall pass.”

Like everything else–it’s complicated. Life isn’t fair, yet my limited teenage experiences told me otherwise. Sheltered by my upper middle class upbringing, I would engage in some magical thinking, borne from the luck of...

The Movie Of Our Lives

What story will you tell? One day a while back, I was in my car getting my NPR “Fresh Air” fix. Terry Gross had been interviewing someone whose name I can’t even recall, but...

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