Sermons
I feel for the Republicans. It’s no fun to confront reality after years of believing one’s own math. But of course, I am not a Republican, and this time around,…
Sermons
When people ask me why I am voting for Barack Obama in this election, I say, “Because I am a Christian and I vote my values.” I am pro-life, and…
Sermons
Last weekend, Tom and I took our first ever 2 day weekend away from our kids. We’ve gone on overnights before, but two nights away? It seemed impossible. Thanks to…
Nields
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Nerissa & Katryna and the Falling Down Barn in 2007 I have sudden and severe laryngitis. I can no longer yell at my kids. In fact, I feel myself to…
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Sermon at West Cummington ChurchMay 20, 2012 Tenderness does not choose its own uses.It goes out to everything equally,circling rabbit and hawk.Look: in the iron bucket,a single nail, a single…
Sermons
photo by Kris McCue For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is…
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Lilacs about to burst, three weeks before they usually do. My friend Andrea Raphael died on Good Friday. My writing mentor and teacher Anna Kirwan died on Easter Sunday. Two…
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I am journaling for Lent with a friend of mine who is a minister and a mom. We are using as inspiration a book called 40 Days with Kathleen Norris….
Sermons
Writing Process
Phillip Price of the Winterpills (and formally of the Maggies) once said to me that every time he got an idea for a song he wrote five different versions of…
