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Lindsey Crittenden

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May 2016

May 18, 2016

Passing the Possibility of Parenthood

Early one recent morning, I’m still half-asleep. The cat lies curled up between Craig and...

May 07, 2013

Emerging from the Tomb Intact

There’s a moment in Anna Karenina in which a frustrated Anna turns to her husband....

March 2013

March 22, 2013

The Pope, My Husband, and Me

“He blessed us.” Craig’s eyes twinkle, his mouth twitches. I recognize the man I fell...

March 05, 2013

Will a Migraine Make Me Holy?

In her collection The White Album, published in 1979, Joan Didion has an essay called...

February 2013

February 14, 2013

Stories that Clamor for Attention

A few weeks ago, early planning started for this summer’s Fiction Intensive at UC Berkeley...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Road Rage and Repentance

Driving other day, down a busy city street, one which I drive once, twice, sometimes...

January 01, 2013

Twelve Days To Sit with the God-Made-Man

As a child, I was somewhat confused by the partridge in the pear tree and...

December 2012

December 14, 2012

Namaste Neighborhood Yoga Studio

My local yoga studio just closed. I’ve known the day was coming, as much as...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

How To Accomplish Love

From time to time, a big sheet of butcher paper goes up on the wall...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

Dead Calm at Sea

It’s Monday morning as I write this post. Monday morning, with all that implies: back...

October 04, 2012

Words both Real and True

I belong to a movie group that meets monthly in one another’s living rooms...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

Moon Landings and Mars Rovers: Fascination and Ambivalence

The day before I left on vacation, the front page of the New York Times...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

Rediscovering Rilke

Like many people, I discovered the writings of Rainer Maria Rilke in college. I took...

August 01, 2012

Loaves and Fishes

As a child, I was a finicky eater, pushing around on my plate those items...

July 2012

July 11, 2012

The Bleeding Woman: an Imagining

—This story was inspired by Mark 5:21-43, the gospel reading for Sunday, July 1. Twelve...

June 2012

June 15, 2012

In Another Lifetime

Early one recent morning, I’m still half-asleep. The cat lies curled up between Craig and...

May 2012

May 24, 2012

Why Wouldn’t I Be Fine?

“You OK?” Craig touches my hand, looks at me. We’re in the car, Sunday evening,...