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November 2012

November 01, 2012

One Last Moving Day Post

We’re moving today. Are you so sick of me saying that? Me too. So, in...

October 2012

October 04, 2012

How to say goodbye

Fifteen months ago, when Chris was offered his new job and we made the decision...

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Blessing in the Leaving

As we walk into the church, I think about the last Sunday in our church...

September 14, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Mark Strand

This is how it happens: You grieve the news that you will leave your home....

September 04, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Pre-Move Moving Weekend

We did it. The movers showed up Friday morning and took all our possessions away...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Far far away

Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sin is put away! Happy are...

August 06, 2012

Wherever I Send You, Whatever it Costs You

A week and a half ago, prior to my grandfather’s funeral, as I ate a...

October 2011

October 14, 2011

Making Peace with Distance

I’ve been far away for a long time. I used to think of Distance as...

August 2011

August 03, 2011

This Way to Austin…

I know, I know. How clichéd is that picture? But I took it myself. I...

July 2011

July 07, 2011

Why I wish I lived in a commune.

In honor of this little vacation I'm on with some of my favorites, this post...

July 06, 2011

slow, idle, brave

This week, while I’m on vacation, I’ll be re-posting some thoughts from back in the...

June 2011

June 30, 2011

A Letter to 24-year-old Micha (For the Yoobs in my life…)

Dear younger self, I have some things to tell you, not because I’ve really learned...

June 02, 2011

Why this blog was not titled “Mama:Monk of San Francisco”

When I started writing to all you lovely people, I was pretty lonely. I was...

May 2011

May 18, 2011

The ache of place

The idea of PLACE sort of blows my mind sometimes. That’s probably a weirdly deep...

April 2011

April 04, 2011

The Pen Effect

In the past 9 years, I’ve lived in three very different cities: Syracuse, Philadelphia, and...

February 2011

February 11, 2011

Three Vows

Remember how I’m reading through Esther de Waal’s Living With Contradiction? I’ll admit I’m slow-going...

January 2011

January 25, 2011

Thankful Tuesday: Contentment

Sunday was my day of contentment. It was all I seemed to hear all day....

January 10, 2011

Wholeness in Contradiction: A New Year’s Resolution

“We are all seeking wholeness,” the amazing Esther de Waal writes in Living with Contradiction:...

January 06, 2011

Why I wish I lived in a commune.

I just rode home in the back seat of a Volkswagen with two seventeen year...

September 2010

September 16, 2010

Glee, hot chocolate, football, and why I love (and miss) Fall.

It's almost officially Fall. Glee's new season starts next week! ACs across the country or...

September 01, 2010

Ah, Stability.

“All stability challenges us to engage the people where we are. We do not listen...

July 2010

July 14, 2010

The Geography of Home

I'm honored that my dear friend, Alysia Yates, agreed to share some of her fascinating...

July 08, 2010

slow, idle, brave

Today, while zooming through a profile piece on an artist and mother in the New...

June 2010

June 10, 2010

Coming Home

"Coming Home" is such a cliché. Remember in Sleepless in Seattle when Tom Hanks describes...

May 2010

May 23, 2010

Stability

Of the vows Benedictine monks take, the one I haven’t yet mentioned is that of...

May 23, 2010

Stability

Of the vows Benedictine monks take, the one I haven’t yet mentioned is that of...