One day we will tell this story. "Now" will be behind us. We will try to find words and metaphors to describe what it was like. There will be a day when it's past, and we'll sit in a coffee shop or lunch room or at a women's study group, and we'll tell our story in this bigger story. But, today is ...
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I didn't know how good it is to cry until I couldn't. Several years ago I lost the ability to cry. I miss it. We're meant to have a good cry. From our first minutes of life, we release what we process through tears. In the years to follow, most of us practice managing and controlling the urge to ...
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It's been three weeks since the Governor of the Washington State issued a Stay Home order. We couldn't imagine then what life is now. It's more than we can wrap our minds around. A lot to absorb, process, understand, and respond to. For children, they're trying to swim through this current with a ...
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I was in aisle 7 when I heard a loud sneeze. I whipped around to see the offender and weighed my options. Push her away and run? No, I would compromise our social distance and could contaminate myself when I made contact! Spray her down with my hand sanitizer? No, I needed to save it for myself. ...
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I guess you could say we needed toilet paper, but that's not why I bought a package Tuesday. The empty shelves caught my eye. With less than ten packs on the shelf, I figured I'd better not be left caught with my pants down. (Ahem) It was "just one package." But the same sense of worry, no matter ...
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