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Sleepless in Virginia
I can’t sleep tonight. My husband, a Den Leader for my son’s Cub Scout Troop, is out at Burke Lake on a campout with our two sons. My daughter is asleep and I am approximately 393,234 sheep from...
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Service, Talents, Self and God
Last week, as part of my ongoing spiritual journey, I embarked on a systematic rereading of the New Testament. I took a break from reading Mark and read Deb Bryan’s post about learning compassion from...
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My Faith: Why I Cannot Do Otherwise
I wrote the following last week . . . _______________ I’ve been thinking about my presence on Facebook. As my page has gotten bigger, I’ve met more and more lovely people. Unfortunately, a few folks...
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A Real-Life Banned Author: Stephanie Saye
Stephanie Saye is one of my friends. She’s also the author of Little 15, which tells the story of a high school girl who has an affair with her basketball coach. Little 15 raises a number of...
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Bob Costas on Gun Control
Bob Costas stared at the camera with a steely-eyed glare, and then used the entire ninety second halftime segment of last night’s Cowboys vs. Eagles game to argue in favor of stricter gun control laws...
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Adventures in Shepherdstown: A Writer’s Life
I grab my jacket and my wallet and my cell phone and my room keycard and my Sportsband and I head out of the Clarion Hotel, down a hill or two, and walk for about a mile until I spot an old white...
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Skating with Molotov: Portland Renegade Roller Derby
Last week, after I wrote a post that referred to my own elbow-throwing, competitive propensities, a woman who skates by the name of Molotov approached me on my Facebook Page, Running from Hell with El,...
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Self-publishing, Marketing and Brave Farewells
Hello friends! This may be my last blog past from this platform. I’ve signed up with Hostgator and am moving on to the brave new world of self-hosting, which is both exciting and freakin’ awful....
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Child Abuse Laws: How Bad is Child Porn?
As a brief housekeeping matter, I’ve learned a great deal about building websites since I last spoke to you. I learned, for example, that Sitebuilder and WordPress don’t play well together. I could not...
View ArticleHanding Shame to God
“Okay,” She said, her blue eyes offsetting her light hair, “What I want to do is try some distancing. I want to take you back there in that room, where you are . . .” she paused delicately, “In that...
View ArticleSermon on On Gays, Love, and God
God may have inspired all of the books that exist in the Bible, but He didn’t write all of them. Even the gospels he wrote or helped write, such as Kings, Songs, Proverbs and parts of Psalms, Job, and...
View ArticleThe Great Mystery: Love
The Sufi and Eastern mystics say that the key to realizing God is to empty yourself and they’re right. Once you empty out all the things of this world, the wantings and longings driven by ego and...
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