End of Sabbatical and a new writer friend
Today is the last day of my sabbatical from Christian Peacemaker Teams, which began June 1, 2012. I ran a search on Google images for “sabbatical” and most of them involved beaches. Mine didn’t. I...
View ArticleRevising Future Canadian History
When I set up the geography for my dystopic future novel, The Price We Paid, (formerly Shea) I knew that I wanted to have several Autonomous Indigenous Regions (AIRs) between the United States and...
View ArticleTwitter 1.5 (or so)
Haven’t blogged because, as usual, I’m entering seven months worth of bank statements into Quicken instead of having set up a time on the calendar to do it monthly. I’ve also spent about six hours in...
View ArticleYou won’t know where I’m going till I get there
I will soon be leaving for a field assignment with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). For those of you who don’t know me well, I work most of the year for CPT from my home in Rochester, NY, editing...
View ArticleMurdered and Missing Women: Reflections on a Tumblr comment
[Warning: This release contains profanity and triggers about violence.] The way these phrases and photos invade my life is a bit like grace, in that I do not anticipate their effect and I know they are...
View ArticleThere are some forms of sadness more worth having than some forms of happiness.
A young mother shared in church on Sunday the pain her family was going through with their foster child at the moment: a pain coming from loneliness, frustration, anger and yes, love for this child...
View ArticleTreasure in Ferguson, Colombia, Palestine, Iraqi Kurdistan, and Turtle Island
Note: I originally wrote this reflection for my blog, then adapted it for my organization’s CPTnet. I’m adapting it back again a little. Since a St. Louis, Missouri prosecutor and Grand Jury have...
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