I Want You to Be Happy
“I hope you’re happy.” Right now, right here, that’s not a sarcastic statement, though it often is – Good for you. I hope
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April 21, 2022
writing
To My Pen Pal, With Love
I have written before about how much I love writing letters. They give me great joy to send and receive. I usually do them
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June 1, 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
Changing the Words and Keeping the Story
After many years of wanting to write a book that’s part memoir, part stories of my journey as a hospital chaplain and how the
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May 10, 2021
National Day of Prayer
As a hospital chaplain, I constantly get to come alongside my patients and families in prayer. It’s an amazing role and I
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May 6, 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
Book Review: The 1-Minute Writer by Leigh Medeiros
Time. Such an important commodity, and one we never think we have enough of. How many of us have wanted to sit down and write
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March 23, 2020
A Life in Letters
This piece may, in some ways, feel a bit antiquated. It’s becoming far more common to type than hand-write. I admit that most
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January 22, 2020
NaNoWriMo Makes Me Neurotic
Yes, it’s NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month, in case you missed the announcement. Once a year, for a month, insanely
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November 14, 2019
Turn Your Wander into Wonder
It’s well known that walking aids creativity. In fact, it’s become so entrenched that there’s now a backlash against such a
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October 12, 2019
