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Since I am a small-time blogger and don't really let anyone know that I even do this, I somehow feel okay confessing over cyberspace tha...

As a child I searched for you. There was the soft prayer necklace of the Catholic boy from my day care -- it hung around my neck, it hung ag...

Listen, people---even you far away people: GOD called me before I was born and since I've been born He's been saying my name. ...

Christmas day is for eating and opening presents and remembering the nativity and giving hugs and doing times tables, right? Well, that'...

incubi notturni Today I went into my professor's office because there was one question that I thought was a little ambiguous. ...

Two things: One. I'm a completely undependable person, especially to myself. There is no other person in the world that I hear so many e...

Recently my adult life has taken an unexpected turn. An outsider couldn't observe it, but I've noticed it--deep in the reces...

Just now--reading this book and thinking through these questions--I realize that I had such an opportunity last year in Oregon and I wasted ...

So I'm doing this thing where I step out of my (neatly organized and vacuumed) comfort zone and try things that I either have tried and...

You may or may not know that Joshua and I just moved from Portland, Oregon to Michigan so I could start graduate school. Either way, now you...

I try to live a little dangerously. Sometimes I don't wash my face before bed. Sometimes I let my tea steep a little too long. I don...

When I was very young, I met a woman named Joyce. At that age I could not really appreciate her, nor could I know the profound way that she ...

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