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Teaching Our Children to Fish
I’ve always called a spade a spade.A vagina a vagina. And a penis a penis. This morning I stumbled across a mother’s forum where a woman asks for pet names to call her children’s privates. She states that she always felt awkward when her mom used the word vagina, and...
Don’t Be Afraid, I Want to Say; You Have Neighbors in Grief and Allies in Healing
Moonlit oceanon the eve of a storm “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” I recently stumbled across this Frederick Buechner quote. So poetic. So poignant. So precise in the way it captures life’s essence. In the last three...
Happy on a Hillside
Happy Happens on a Hillside On one of our recent errands, my son pointed out this smiling hillside. Someone had mowed it into a long sweeping hillside, one that looks like the perfect winter sledding track.Do you see it, the mouth running along the gate? The one eye...
Finding a Little Luck in Life
A few weeks ago I was cleaning my dog's poop from my backyard and discovered this four-leaf clover.And then another... Mixed with life's crap, there's always some stroke of good fortune, if your eyes are open to its existence within your path...And, oh, what a lucky...
Staying Married After a Second Affair
Last night I wrote this post, which was inspired by a piece about Bill Clinton’s sixty-sixth birthday. That article questioned if the former president could have known, the day he met then-President JFK, that he would someday succeed the great man. That question...
Bill Clinton and the Evolution of a Marriage that Transcends Infidelity
Stylelistran this piecein honor of Bill Clinton’s sixty-sixth birthday, this past Sunday. The article questions if the seventeen-year-old Clinton knew he would someday follow in the footsteps of JFK, when he met him at the White House in 1963.And according to his...