Monthly Archives: February 2020

The History of Real People Isn’t Boring

Posted on February 27, 2020 by

When I was a schoolgirl, history bored me. But then again, my only exposure to it was through textbooks, which have a knack for distilling entire civilizations into lists of emperors, kings, conquerors, presidents, financial magnates and military generals, whose … Continue reading →

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Problems Are Mountains and Mountains Can Be Climbed

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

If there is a large mountain in our way, and we have to get to the other side, it doesn’t do much good to pretend that it isn’t there. And yet, we do this all the time, not so much … Continue reading →

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Fellowship: It’s Not a Church Thing. It’s a Life Thing

Posted on February 13, 2020 by

Fellowship with other human beings is one of the sweetest gifts life has to offer. For years, my mental association with the word was limited to church culture, the five minutes before or after formal services in which people were … Continue reading →

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Romance: Hand in Hand and Side by Side

Posted on February 6, 2020 by

Years ago, when my Norwegian Artist husband and I were poor college students, we didn’t have money to go on a proper date. So we took long walks instead. (As an aside, we were often passed by a couple in … Continue reading →

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