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The band was back.So were the parents, the siblings and the grandparents. Best of all, the teachers were back and in real person too. It was our local…
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Happiness filled Wrigley Field.It rang out in laughter, in chatter, in cheers. It reverberated in the organ music, in the shout of the hotdog man, in the…
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The bat landed on my pillow.And needless to say, we four teenage girls broke out in a chorus of screams that would have made Hollywood proud. We were…
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The mid-February day was a bitter 18 degrees with deep snow everywhere.And yet, as I walked along the river’s frosty shores there appeared before me a…
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They are angels among us.They are the heart and soul of our children’s education. They are the ones we count on to lead the next generation forward, and…
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We came seeking the star.Just a few of us showing up on the open prairie, our silhouettes backlit by a ruby-rimmed horizon and the deepening hues of a…
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I’m reinventing Thanksgiving, which is not easy to do.Especially since this will be our 40th straight year to host Thanksgiving for family and…
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The sanctuary was silent.The doors shuttered since March, so I have not been inside our church since. Because of the pandemic, we are worshiping online or…
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Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I sat alone in a Yosemite forest and wept.My husband and I had been hiking to a major grove of sequoias and were…
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It’s been a long time since I have seen the fireflies in such profusion blinking their love light into the gloaming, but perhaps, I was just not…