by Evelyn Krieger “Teach us to count our days, so that we may acquire a heart of wisdom.” Psalm 90 The day social services take my friend’s children away, I am packing for a family trip to …
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Putting the Pieces Together
By Lindsey Goldstein I stood in the shower, warm water cascading over my shoulders and relaxing me enough to cause my eyes to close. My husband and daughter had left the day before to go skiing, …
Hearing the Wake-Up Call of Your Creative Life
by Jennifer L. Hollis When my friend Kris suggested we take ourselves on a do-it-yourself writer’s retreat, I told her she was a genius. We are both writers in our forties and, like so many people …
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Should This Friendship End?
In this month’s column Nina makes an unusual call for the end of a friendship. Do you agree that this friendship is doomed? Nina is always taking anonymous questions here. And catch up on all the …
After the Urgency
By Elizabeth Neumann Fuller Every other week, an early morning bell sends me racing from my classroom out to the elementary school parking lot, donning my whistle and zipping up my reflective vest …
Mouths of Babes
By Jennifer Golden Children, especially our own, seem especially competent at guilelessly pointing out our flaws and insecurities. “From the mouths of babes,” is, after all, a proverb for a …