Who Do You Think You Are?
I waited more than six weeks for the test results. Using a few swabs from inside my cheek, researchers at African Ancestry
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June 27, 2021
Essays
Getting Caught Reading – A Lifelong Pursuit
I learned to read early. By early, I mean before I was four years old, I was able to read picture books and had started to
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May 26, 2021
Bringing a Sack Lunch and Other Rebellions
Photo by Matt Moloney on Unsplash May 25th is National Brown-Bag-It Day, according to the people who make ridiculous calendar
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May 25, 2021
The Story of How Guam Got Its Shape
Guam, the southernmost island of the Mariana Islands, looks as though large bites were taken from either side. It is wide at
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May 18, 2021
Funny on Facebook
“Why would I want to join Facebook? Who really cares what I’m thinking?” That was my mom about 15 years ago, when Facebook
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May 11, 2021
The Intersection of Poetry and Healing
“I believe inconvenient survivors. I believe survivors I am told not to believe. I believe disabled survivors. I believe
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April 14, 2021
“Was” is the Wrong Word
Ever since my mother crossed that golden bridge where flesh becomes dust and soul becomes light, people have been referring
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March 9, 2021
The Gray Robe
When I was in my late teens, early 20’s, I got a gray robe for Christmas. It was a gift from my mother and was
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February 26, 2021
How to Be an American Now
I am writing this on Inauguration Day 2021 from my kitchen table in Mexico. It is an odd thing to watch the dawn of a new
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January 30, 2021
The Sacred Rite of Touch
I spent September 2019 to June 2020 doing a hospital chaplaincy residency in Minnesota, many miles away from my family in New
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January 20, 2021
