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  I need the warm curl of fingers around a pen the brush of hand across paper scratch of a ...

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Why Bother? No, Really?

After a sleepless night and an overwhelmed, distracted day, I kept coming back to the question – why bother? Why ...

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What To Do During the 11th Hour

I’ve been circling around this topic for months?…years?….decades?…and finally I think it’s time to square my shoulders and confront it, crazy ...

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Prey, Predator, Witness, or Actor?

Over the past few days, I’ve been contemplating a memory from a very dark time, when I was nevertheless being ...

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Learning the Art of Forgiveness

By Cynthia Greb I have been blessed in my life because I have seldom been badly mistreated, and I know ...

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Reclaiming the Child

She’s still in there – the child. The one who believed – really believed – that magic could happen and ...

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The Struggle Is the Same

By Phila Hoopes “Everyone’s a critic,” the theatre saying goes…and (nearly) everyone has a critic’s voice droning on in their ...

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Losing Myself, Finding Myself: Learning the Lessons of Illness

By Cynthia Greb I have so many stories to share. We all do, do we not? Eight years ago I ...

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The Divinity of the Speck

By Phila Hoopes A few months ago, in a storm of grief over the way the world is going, I ...

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