Most of us seem to be at a place where we can take flying for granted and thus be annoyed by the whole experience. I have not forgotten that it is basically a miracle that we are all hurtling through space, well above the safety of the earth in a glorified tin can, and I…
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Have you observed a new mammal? A baby mammal if you will? They are marked by their diminutive size and greater or lesser degrees of helplessness. They nurse, the need protection, they are bad at keeping themselves warm so need to be close to a bigger mammal, often they are poor of sight, and they…
What does it mean to be a man? Do you wake up on the morning of your eighteenth birthday, that year we have designated as being close enough, and all of a sudden you have been transformed? At 18 we as a society have decided you are mature enough to fight in a war (though…
Eggs that is. Perhaps you have heard about the new perk you get as a woman working at Apple or Facebook. No more do you need to worry about pesky things like biology or nature, these have been concurred. Having children while also working or building your career is no longer something you have to…
or why do we have to choose. I don’t know too many people who are really good at self-care. Maybe it’s that famed Puritan work-ethic, but it doesn’t seem to me that the lack of ability around self-care, or the tendency to push through the pain are either limited to populations influenced by that particular…
I am not a loyal listener to any particular music radio station. Most of the time I am on NPR, but when I do take a break from being informed about the world I dart around among six or so stations, hoping to avoid commercials and maybe hit a spot on the playlist with music…
The night before we left the closet was almost empty, there were a few hand-me-down business suits that really were not needed, at least not right away, and the drawer of miscellaneous socks that were mostly ignored and certainly not needed. There was a big pile of clothes on the floor, the things that had…
When you have more than one child the youngest, no matter how old they are, is doomed to be the baby forever. They can’t help it and neither can you. It’s not that they aren’t both loved, nurtured, cared for and doted on it’s just that one is the little one, the young one, the…
I am not a nurse by trade. Neither am I in any of the professions that might commonly come into contact with things being expelled from bodies. I deal in the world of ideas, theory, books and paper, that is what I do. I have a deep respect for people who are care givers, who…
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the experience of parenting, about children and the growing up they do while we are busy parenting them, and about the growing up we do as parents during that time, and all the time really. There is a very rapid growing up that happens for about…
Faith Works 