A Marriage, Best Left Unturned
My six-year-old son, Asher, and I walk along the creek bed half a mile from our small yellow house in our suburban neighborhood. He loves it when we fish for leaves and [...]
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Personal Essays | My Body: The Struggle Within
I homeschool my son, which works very well for me because a lot of my time is spent in my pajamas. Occasionally, though, we actually venture outside and go places. The other [...]
Personal Essay | On the Eve of My 30th Birthday
By Tiffany Sedberry Reiger I turn 30 in July. That birthday has been one that I have always feared and anticipated some great awakening of myself. As I prepare for it, I [...]
Paper Doors and Inner Space
When I was a young newlywed, I moved from Honolulu to Tokyo to be with my husband. He was working for a small tech industry startup that provided services to multinational [...]
How To Defuse An Anger Ball | Joyful Meditation
When I was a kid, there was this weed I loved. It grew wild in playgrounds and untended lawns. We called it sleeping grass, and if it has a real name, I don’t know it. It [...]
Confronting Mortality On The Slopes | At The Root Of Things
When I’m on the mountain, it’s like that dream where I’m flying—not like Superman—but more like The Greatest American Hero, from the television show in the [...]
The Toilet Feeling
I was giving one of those ridiculously long, lectures from the front seat of the minivan one day, rattling on about how honesty and integrity, along with kindness, are [...]
Joyful Meditation: The Prodigal Cat
We have this cat who is mostly ours. We feed him and take him to the vet, but unlike our two inside cats, this one, known as Harold the Brave, likes to go roaming. He’s [...]
For Here, Please | Take Your Dog For A Walk, And By Your Dog I Mean You
Walking with my friend Stephanie and her dog Tulip has been one of my consistent pleasures since moving to Portland four years ago. On our last ramble, watching Tulip run [...]
