hope

Faith and Religion
Memoir
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Just Like Christmas

For all kinds of reasons, and especially this year, the holidays are a mix of wonder and heartbreak, magic and stress, togetherness and loneliness.  One Christmas Eve when I was young, in the house at the top of our family farm’s gravel road, my grandmother slipped from this world into the next while my cousins, […]

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Try Holding On

I used to love the way I could be connected to the people in my life in the virtual realm. Now where once I was overjoyed to see the faces and stories of people, I feel a sinking sense of dread. Everyone seems to have been turned into a caricature of the real person they […]

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