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Grief Without a Timetable 7 Aug 2013 | 05:48 pm
“Every childhood has its trauma. This will just be theirs,” said my therapist who helped me through the separation that led to my divorce some five years back. I nodded, holding back the tears. What h...
Pacifist Meets Gun 24 Jul 2013 | 02:15 am
To my parents, peaceful people who raised me in a gun-free home on anti-gun teachings, let me assure you I’m the same pacifist I’ve always been. To my dear friend, who was less than enthused to hear I...
Intensely Passionate and Passionately Intense 27 Jun 2013 | 03:54 am
Yesterday, tears sprang to my eyes when I caught my younger son’s profile. He’s days from being twelve, and it’s a rare day that I don’t wipe a tear while glancing at the curve of his still-childlike ...
A Walk in the Woods 17 Jun 2013 | 03:43 am
Yesterday I walked in the woods with my dear friend, sharing the sights and sounds of Stony Creek Metropark on a warming Saturday morning. We’d started a conversation an hour before, and there was sti...
Pope Francis, Atheism, and Words of Thanks 25 May 2013 | 06:43 am
“The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone! And this Blood makes us children of...
A Letter to My Father: Agnosticism Explained 6 May 2013 | 06:28 am
On the morning of April 19th, the day after a night of gunfire and fear in Watertown, just four days after the Boston Marathon shooting, two days after the explosion in West, Texas, and two days after...
Conflict Acceptance 19 Apr 2013 | 05:12 am
I’m a bit conflict-avoidant. Not avoidant of what I perceive as low-risk conflict. I rather enjoy debates about a host of issues and semantic questions. That’s mental stimulation that keeps me thinkin...
Love, Laws, and Sex 29 Mar 2013 | 05:50 am
While the Supreme Court of the United States ponders questions about marriage equality, human rights, and states’ rights, I’ve been thinking about love. For those who support the right of two consenti...
Through a Glass Darkly 20 Mar 2013 | 05:21 am
For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. (Corinthians 13:13) I once felt certain that God existed, understandin...
On Being a Compassionate People 20 Feb 2013 | 06:18 am
A few weeks back, my younger son was having a hard time. He was anxious for reasons he couldn’t entirely identify, and when anxious, he acts irritable and stubborn with frequent outbursts. I know this...
