I became a better person because of Alzheimer's disease. I had the rare privilege of working in the dementia unit of a nursing home for several years. The lives I encountered there were unique. Their stories both heartbreaking and life-affirming. Those five years were some of the hardest years of my life, personally. I had…
A Prayer for Today
Help. That was the prayer of our pastor yesterday in church. Just -- Help. She didn't have any other words. No comfort, no platitudes, no trying to explain what happened. Just heartbreak. And a heart cry of --HELP. Help - the panicked cries and frantic texts from inside Pulse, as bullets flew and an LGBT sanctuary…
Coup De’Shoe
Shoes, of all things, have been sort of a 'thing' for me over the past year. It started when I walked into the UU church in Boiling Springs, and the pastor there was wearing completely impractical, gorgeous, bright shoes with her robe. Those shoes...looked like rebellion. They made me grin a gleefully naughty grin. They…
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