Image credit: Photo by crowbert on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons On my wrist is a bright yellow rubber bracelet with LIVESTRONG imprinted on it. I plucked it from a small wicker basket on a table next to a guest book at a memorial service where one of the loved ones spoke about the task [...]
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Golden Years
Image credit: Photo by Travis Jon Allison on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I don't like Agnes much," said my mother, "She's definitely no Aunt Gerty. But it's because Gerty was so wonderful that I think Uncle Fred is marrying Agnes." "What do you mean?" I asked. Uncle Fred and Aunt Gerty had been married [...]
Signposts Along the Way
Image credit: Photo by funkypancake on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Sometimes people ask me (and frankly, sometimes I ask myself) how I went from being very vocal in my rejection of God to someone who now talks about God all the damn time. The short and simple answer is: 12 Step recovery (which is [...]
Wearing Away the Stone
Image credit: Photo by lfaisco on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons As I was brushing my hair recently, I noticed a few strands of gray. My mother's hair seemed to turn white nearly overnight in her late forties. She said it was the grief of losing two close family members within less than a year [...]
I Will Never, Not Ever, Say I’m Sorry
Image credit: Photo by Ninha Morandini on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I apologize. A lot. For plenty of things I didn't do or cause. But because we humans are so dang complicated and inconsistent, there are other times when I'll obstinately refuse to apologize for hurts I have actually inflicted. I won't want to [...]
Sorry!
Image credit: Photo byboxchain on Flickr(It's codie graffiti!) I tend to apologize for things. A lot. If things are going less than perfectly, if I'm less than perfect, it's hard for me to go 15 seconds without "I'm so sorry" slipping out. If you've met me in real life, you've almost certainly heard me apologize [...]
Happy Loving Day
Photo credit:by Fazy on Flickrwith thanks to BizyLizyfor finding it first Today is Loving Day. Forty one years ago today, in the case of Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court passed down a unanimous decision legalizing interracial marriage. A little over thirty years after that decision, a black man and a white woman who [...]
An Open Letter to my Mother
Dear Mom, If you are reading this, you have somehow found yourself at my blog. I always knew there was the potential for you to end up here, but I figured the odds were against it, and the work I've been doing is important enough that it seemed worth that small risk. Now that you [...]
