If I were to ask this general question, “What are you afraid of?” How many differing answers would there be? Or would there be only variations of a few answers?
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All kinds of people ride the train. Mickey is a black man in his forties who sat across the aisle on my recent Amtrak trip to Salinas, California. He was attending his uncle’s funeral in Oakland, his uncle being like a brother as they were near in age. He hadn’t …
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This week is the beginning of the 40 days of Lent that precede Easter. It is, for Christians, a time for remembering the sacrifices Jesus made on behalf of the world.
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It happened like this. My 92-year-old uncle — my mother’s younger brother — lives in Salinas, California. The last family I have from my parents’ generation. He, of course, is a big 49ers football fan. I am not.
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My profound apologies Eclipse — the Seattle city bus riding dog. You are not a he, you are a she! I happened to look at your story again after writing about you and realized my mistake.
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Did you see the story this week of Eclipse the dog? Seems he hopped the bus himself when his owner took too long finishing his cigarette. Rode to the downtown Seattle dog park where the driver let him off, and he had a blast meeting fellow canine friends.
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When I lived in Pasadena, California, in a retirement community caring for my elderly aunt I met Bonnie — somewhere in her 80s. She’d worked as a nurse overseas in medical missions. One day she told me a story.
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I just finished a Pulitzer Prize book — “The Known World” — set in pre-Civil War days in Virginia. The practice of slavery is vividly and viciously portrayed, even when “nice” things are happening. Because nothing nice can come from one person’s “ownership” of another. Or when one race lords …
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When you live up high with a view you can track goings on that might surprise the people being “spied” upon. Kind of like that nosy neighbor peering out the window in the early morning dark. And lights tell the story.
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What is it about starting a new year that seems so difficult? Would it be easier in a warmer, sunnier clime? Seasonal affective disorder — or SAD — descends like a heavy blanket on some people.
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I’d like to revisit a statement from a couple weeks ago in Jesus’ depiction of the kingdom of God and His emphasis on kindness to others. He mentions being welcoming toward a stranger. What is it to offer welcome to another? Maybe it’s easier to explain it by what it’s …
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“North of Hope” — a memoir I’ve just finished — is one of the bravest stories I’ve ever read. The author, a former Army attack helicopter pilot — and scuba diver and sky diver and mountain climber, is obviously not one to back away from a challenge.
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How to cut through all the holiday razzle-dazzle and end up satisfied is something most of us wish for. Thanksgiving used to be a little simpler than it’s become. I have friends who will begin Black Friday shopping Thursday evening, sleeping a few hours in their car that night — …
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