Keeping up with the daily news is like watching an intense tennis match. One could get whiplash with the extreme back and forth in national and world events: The peace deal is on. Oops, the peace deal is off. Bombing has stopped. Oops, rockets are flying again. Gas prices are down a little. Oops, they […]
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It’s no secret that I’ve had lots of losses in recent years. Big ones, like the deaths of parents, husband, sister, and other family members, as well as friends, but also smaller ones like beloved pets and places where I lived that I loved. As someone who’s worked closely with death and dying, supporting patients
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I thought it would be fun to share some interesting slang words I recently saw on the Word Smarts Website. There are just a few here on the blog, but you can find more on the Word Smarts site, as well as more detailed information about them. “Wicked” is a word common to the northeast,
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Before turning the blog over to Slim so we can smile & relieve some stress over what’s happening domestically & on the world stage, I can’t let all things pass without pointing out a couple of truly absurd items in the news. Sometimes it’s a challenge to pick just two out of the tangled mess,
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Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms and grandmoms and special women in a child’s life. First off, I want to pay tribute to my mother, and send her some virtual roses. The following is a blog post I wrote about her in 2015. Ours was not a storybook relationship for many years, and it’s
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This blog post starts with a plea to elected officials to STOP using rhetoric that in any way supports political violence across party lines. We are not enemies, so it’s time to stop acting like we are. My second plea is to the media to STOP using words like adversary, revenge, anger, retaliation, and payback.
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One of the requirements of Clinical Pastoral Education is writing and leading a meditation that can be used as the prayer to start the class sessions. At least that’s the way it was in the training program I went through in Omaha NE be a hospital chaplain, but requirements may vary from place to place and
This is a post about grief, that I hope will be of some help to those who are struggling with the loss of someone close to them. It starts with this letter from Dr. Robert Hughes to a young man he’d been counseling. This was written around the time of the young man’s father’s funeral:
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“There is still so much in the world worth fighting for. So much that is beautiful.” A wonderful, hopeful message from Jane Goodall in 2018 I wonder if it even applies to this year, this time in history. Between the war in Ukraine, Iran, and Lebanon, as well as the continuing attacks by Israel in
Wishing everyone joy and fun and peace for this time of renewal. Whatever holiday you celebrate, or even if you celebrate none, Spring is always a time of anticipation of good things to come as the earth comes to life again and helps us feel a sense of hope. Hope has been hard to come
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