(written a couple days earlier than it’s due: that’s a victory!) On this Epiphany Sunday, it feels like everywhere I turn there are gifts, messages, wisdom-bearers. While driving to church this morning, I was again reminded of how much I love the trees in the wintertime. They are no longer clumps of trees or groups or [...]
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Having Children
Tomorrow, on 11/11/11 our youngest turns 10. No more will Linda and I (and their dads) be parents of a single-digit(ed) child. For some reason this feels to be to be a significant milestone. Raising kids was (truly) my partner’s idea, not mine. I never really imagined being a mother – no baggage or agenda [...]
Risking a Walk in a Parade
Yesterday I marched in my 8th Pride Parade. I can’t say I love doing it. To be honest, I truly wish that it wasn’t necessary. I wish there was no line (seen or imagined) that separated “us” from “them,” “gay” from “straight.” I wish… I walked with a group of 30 folks who “played a [...]
The Drive In
My drive to work takes between 45 minutes and an hour. No matter what I do, that’s how things will go. Each morning when I pull out of the driveway I begin making decisions. Through downtown Decatur or go around and take Scott Boulevard? Take Interestate 285 or through the back streets? And if the back [...]
Risking Accepting Her Gift
There I was . . . smack-dab in the middle of my pity-party, when she gave me her gift. It was truly grace. Un-asked for. Un-deserved. Pure gift. There it was on the kitchen counter. “Take yourself and a friend to the movie,” our pet sitter said, “Buy yourselves some popcorn.” $40.00 My family had [...]
Today’s Risk: Lessons of a Birthday!?!
What an interesting day, a birthday can be. My friend Jim counsels me to “live into the feeling…” and so on this my 54th birthday, I am going to try living into this very feeling for this very year and hopefully even beyond. And I would certainly call that a risk. This lesson learned from my [...]
