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I was talking with a friend this week about case counts rising and it’s-anybody’s-guess vaccine timelines and the very real spectre that anything resembling “normal life” is many, many months (dare I say a year?) away and he sighed and said “yep, looks like 2020 is just going to be a lost year.” A lost […]

All week I’ve been looking forward to the long run I had planned for yesterday – Good Friday – expecting fewer people to be out and about since it was a weekday. I woefully miscalculated, and found myself tense and anxious as I tried to dodge runners, walkers, bikers and oncoming traffic through Golden Gate […]

I grew up in the Christian tradition and we talk a lot about the idea of “loving your neighbor.”  If you are Jewish or Buddhist or Muslim or not religiously affiliated I know we all have a similar idea, just with different words. It’s this idea that we are – to use another Judeo-Christian phrase […]

The origin of the word “crisis” is the Greek word krisis meaning to separate or to sift.  When I hear the word sift I think, of course, of sifting flour to bake something carb-y and delicious – a loaf of crusty bread, a birthday cake, warm biscuits topped with butter and honey. I think of […]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about fear.   The things I’m afraid of in my own life that are deeply personal (what if the people I love get hurt? What if I wake up at 85 with deep regrets about my life? What if I never get to be a mom?)  and the macro fears […]

I love a new year. I love a new year like I love starting a new blank journal, the pages pristine and untouched, just waiting for new words and ideas and thoughts and experiences to fill them. I love the promise of a new year, the feeling of a new start, a blank slate, the […]

Lately I’ve been rewatching the show Nashville [super soap opera drama, super addictive, makes me seriously consider buying rhinestone-studded cowboy boots] and there’s a song the characters sing that I’ve added to my “All the Feels” Spotify playlist – it’s called A Life that’s Good. Sittin’ here tonight By the fire light It reminds me […]

Tomorrow morning I’m running my first marathon #excited #terrified #mostlyexcited.  I started running in middle school, and did cross country and track in high school. I joked that running was a way to put my height to good use [long stride] that didn’t involve a ball and hence hand-eye coordination.  I kept running recreationally through […]

One of my favorite things to do when I travel is to find a local church and attend Sunday service.  It’s really helpful to be reminded that church – and God – is bigger and more layered than just my church (love it though I do).  Going to church in different cities, especially outside the […]

A few weeks ago, I had the joyful experience of getting to babysit my friend’s precious two year old, Caleb.  After discussing where Mama was and explaining the concept of college [which is surprisingly hard to do!], before bedtime I asked him what songs he wanted to sing.  We went through some greatest hits – […]