

Where Do You Go
Where do you go when there’s nowhere to turn to?Who do you trust? What is the truth? Life stripped you naked, frozen in time.How do you know what to do to survive? It happened so fast you were took by surprise.But that’s usually how tragedy arrives. Like an electric current cold fear fuels your veins.Your…
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Keeping Confession Private
“But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.” Matthew 6:5 If I’m taught to pray in private, why then would I be asked to confess in…
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Happy Mother’s Day Most Important Mother
Oh, Happy, Happy Mother’s Dayto the most important Mother there is. Thank you for watching over usand protecting all our kids. Some are sadly hurting todaywith their mothers no longer on earth. Could you grace them the strength to bear their lossas you did your son of birth. Oh, Blessed Mother, as you knowmotherhood has…
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Opinion writing vs. blowing off steam
Everybody has an opinion. Everybody. And everybody is voicing them. Print, online and on air; written, visual and audible, there is no escaping the myriad of mediums available to share our views. From social media musings of our chia tea at the local café to award-winning opinion writing, everyone is opining. Yet, let us not…
Read MoreGood company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

Island Irish Blessing
May your heart be merry your soul be feisty friends be abundant hangovers hang lightly May rum bring you joy when green beer won’t suffice May you toast God’s grace all the days of your life
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A bond neither time, space nor death can break
On May 3rd, 2018 I learned that a close friend of mine passed away unexpectedly. I was asked by her twin brother if I would write and deliver her eulogy. As I thought about what she left me to work with, I couldn’t help but reflect on the synchronicity of events – I had just…
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Are you living your write of passage
The dead are living proof that what we do in life matters gravely. And I am grateful for their inspiration each and every time I read one of their stories. I’m not an obituary reader by any means. I’ve missed plenty a final fanfare because somebody departed without letting me know, and those that did…
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Double Value

Is your fight of rights limiting your value
I don’t believe the fight of rights should limit itself to feminism. Not all females seek to be valued for their gender. There are females who believe females should occupy a ‘seen and not heard’ sector in the world of humanity. There are females who comfortably succumb to the misperception that they need a male…
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