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Ignore the Elephant, Somehow (opens the original)
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Part III2014-2017Summer 2015Ruthie and I stood on the beach, waves rolling against our kneecaps, cooling our bodies while the sun cooked parts of our hair. Every few minutes, we pulled our feet out of the sandbar.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1767357250990-6e21d9710381?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw3fHxzdGFuZGluZyUyMGluJTIwdGhlJTIwd2F0ZXIlMjBvZiUyMGElMjBiZWFjaHxlbnwwfHx8
Can Christians have a good faith conversation on.... (opens the original)
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I’ve been editing the final chapters of my book this month, hoping to have it “done” soon, when I broke down and wrote a scene about asking my parents why they chose not to abort me. Mom was sixteen, Dad seventeen, when they found themselves in a family way. Oops!In my earliest memory, my parents were still teenagers, smoking dope. I remember pulling a Fisher-Price horse on wheels and pushing it around the room gleefully with the TV flickering in the dark. When I was three or four, they “got bor
To The Money I Owe (opens the original)
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“Oh, I know Gothard,” I told Bruce. Kat, he, and I were chatting over drinks. I’d left David after he’d barely eaten his dinner at the hospital. I’d promised to find tofu, or something vegetarian besides cheese toasties and bring it with me the next day. But he was barely eating. He slept for most of the day, while I tried to read. I squirmed mostly, restless in the vinyl chair, lulled by the beeping, worried about our kids, no longer as worried he’d die. His prescription was NSAIDs and rest. Th
Little Rebellions E.1: What’s in a Name? (opens the original)
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Note: I’ve read a series of essays on Substack by writers from Protestant, non-Christian, and Orthodox backgrounds, mostly women, and the throughline is that women have, for so long, allowed themselves to be cowed into smallness, compliance, and subservience. My words, not theirs. These recent posts are challenging the forces that work to keep them contained. The Orthodox Feminist picked up on one of my faves: the whole Law and Order and true crime gamut about women. Sara Billups wrote about no
Get Out Of My Heart (opens the original)
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What happened in Lancaster? Curiosity tickled me. I wanted to go upstairs, wanted to eavesdrop on Uncle Bruce. Instead, I stayed put. I needed to find the right question and open up Kat’s version of whatever was happening. A breach, and a big one. I’d had a sense, but my family held their cards close.Not knowing what Grandma Mae knew, I restrained myself and let the chit-chat swirl around me, a smoke I wanted to wave away. I wanted to clear the air, but never could find the words. Finally, Grand
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