What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. –T.S. Eliot As I pulled out of my parking space, I realized my gas tank was on empty. How poetic.
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Confessions of a Teeny-Bopper
An enthusiastic teeny-bopper still dwells in a substantial corner of my heart. She used to tight-roll her jeans, wear scrunchies in her hair, create dance routines to Paula Abdul, and hang New Kids on the Block posters in her bedroom.
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Heaven at Hand
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. –Søren Kierkegaard He was in the intensive care unit when he picked up the phone and dialed. He needed a way out. He was going down the list, trying numbers.
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Seriously?!
I am writing this on a flight from Florida to Michigan, going from 80°F to 20°F. Due to extreme weather in the northeast, we’ve been rerouted through Detroit, where we will most likely miss our connection because a passenger on this flight suffered a seizure moments before take-off.
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Chaos and Rigidity
“And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.” – “Stranger than Fiction”
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Can of Worms
It started the Monday after the election. My oldest daughter, Tessa, and I were lying in her bed, talking and listening to music before she went to sleep.
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Rejection Slips
“You do not write the best you can for the sake of art, but for the sake of returning your talent increased to the invisible God, to use or not use as He sees fit.” –Flannery O’Connor I remember sitting in the post office parking lot that day, the heat of mid May filling my…
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