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I was not qualified, that’s for sure, at least not by academic degree or teaching experience. (I had given a presentation in a third-grade classroom once, but I’m sure that didn’t count for much.) “So.” — one of my college students asked me as we drove back from a field trip yesterday — “How in […]
Some people can make you feel like your story doesn’t matter. You know what I mean. You’re sitting in the corner of a friend’s kitchen at her Pampered Chef party, and you begin to pull back a bit of the tightly-drawn curtain on your life, so she can see on the insides a little. You […]
I’ve only begun to know that the biggest dreams are borne from the smallest beginnings– The way that one small pebble can send a whole pond in motion with ripples. Or how one holy baby makes a quiet appearance on a starry night, splitting open the cosmos with his first gasp of air. And in 2012, […]
You’re the girl sitting alone at the lunch table. You’re the woman in the back pew. You look at your Facebook news feed and realize suddenly: you’re the only one who didn’t get invited. Or maybe you’re the blogger with a handful of followers, the pastor with a half-empty church, or the writer who can’t […]
There were 54,000 of us in all. We were singing one song, waving our arms, belting out Neil Diamond in a college football stadium. In that one moment — which was, at once, silly and grand — nobody cared about anybody’s political party. No one screamed at TV sets, banged out fiery Facebook statuses, accused […]