she started it…

she started it…

She started it. She heard salsa music and started dancing like she does every year at Christmas. By herself or with the broom she’ll step to the right, then to the left, then to the right again in syncopated step with the Latin beats. My mom and her dancing only...
shepherds of today…

shepherds of today…

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night… A phrase we thoughtlessly read over is laden with meanings layered deep into culture. The marginalized, disenfranchised members of society were ignored by...

2010 foibles and follies…

If I had to ability to know what the past 365 days entailed, I wouldn’t have believed it. Days seemingly have remained the same but the entire world has changed. The place I sleep. The office where I work. The zip code in which I live. The very person I am. The...
what would jesus’ girlfriend wear…

what would jesus’ girlfriend wear…

Mothers have an odd way of pressuring their children to do things they don’t want to do. You know, clean their room, floss their teeth, talk about modesty. You know, the usual stuff. My mother is the Queen of Guilt Trips. If she wasn’t so darn cute about...

on the seventh day…

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; on the seventh day he rested from all his work.  –Genesis 2:2 On the seventh day God rested. On the seventh day I do anything but rest. Why are you up before the sun is up? Are you getting up yet?...

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