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First Week of Advent: Benches

It was built as a joint venture, a shared effort by three Girl Scouts seeking to achieve their Gold Award. They planned and organized for its construction together. I’m sure that if you found the right people to ask, you could learn more about who specifically did what, but I don’t know why anyone wouldContinue reading “First Week of Advent: Benches”

Ghosts

Moving from one stage of life to another is never a clean break. We expand our families, we change jobs, we change communities. We may move three states away or from one company to another. But whatever our complete body of work in life has been, including our hangups, our spiritual scabs, our grudges, theContinue reading “Ghosts”

Paw Prints on the Baptism Cake

We weren’t intending to get a third cat. Or at least, I wasn’t. In the days after we were married but before we had kids, we had two feline companions named Eve and Nermal. Eve was our St. Louis girl, adopted shortly after we’d moved into an apartment that allowed pets. We adopted Nermal duringContinue reading “Paw Prints on the Baptism Cake”