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MUSIC MOVESHooooooold on.......
This week began like any other week (or any other week in North Dakota, at least): Sunday took us into what looked like it might be a snow day, but we forged ahead safely into programming at the Schoo...
4/18/13 at 6:56 PM
PEACE GARDEN MAMA IIFaith & Family Fridays: Healed by 'Les Mis'
[On occasion, Faith & Family Fridays will include a bit of my newspaper work, published mainly Saturdays in The Forum, reprinted here with permission.] Living Faith: 'Les Miserables' not s...
3/14/13 at 11:44 AM
MIDDLE AGED PLAGUELife's -- and Death's -- Lessons
I visited my father the other day. Generally, these visits consist of my kneeling before a concrete slab, embedded in which is a plaque bearing Dad's name and two salient dates. I tell him how much w...
1/10/13 at 3:06 PM
THE NEW FORTYWe shall find peace...
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels; we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. ~Anton Chekhov Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/2006 Daniel Barden, 9/25/2005 Olivia Engel, 7/18/2006 Josephi...
12/14/12 at 2:27 PM Is this the world we want to live in? 12/5/12 at 1:44 AM
HEALTHBEATGrief for the holidays
It's hard to look at the calendar and not be reminded that Christmas Eve will mark exactly four months since my dad's funeral. There's going to be an enormous gap in the family holiday celebration thi...
12/6/12 at 6:29 PM The medicalization of grief 3/9/12 at 3:04 PM
This thing called grief 1/17/11 at 1:44 PM
STAFF BLOGIN THE SPIRITI’ve been blown away but not by the wind
Long have I admired the beautiful mum plants people have in their yards or on their front steps each fall season. Old as I am, however, I have never had one. Until now. My doorbell rang just moments...
10/19/12 at 3:13 PM
MODERN-DAY JANEThe weather, on the other hand, has been TOO consistent.
Change is not my friend. I do not care for things to change. Actually, that is not exactly true. I just don't like for things to change SUDDENLY, or without my prior approval. In the last month or so...
1/24/11 at 7:04 PM
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