THE BLOG
A Letter to the Parents and Guardians of Medically-Fragile Graduates
Our eldest graduated last week from high school-online public school. Because the online public school was not hosted by a local school district, we traveled two hours to...
Take Me With You
Take me with you as you go back out into the world,masked.We are but a few. Those of us for whom the threat of the virus still looms large. We are the ones who have to...
The Roaring Twenties
*Art by Jennylynd James It is the final week of this decade.I have been thinking about what it was like, 100 years ago, at the turn of such a decade.Hats.Swooshing...
Complicit.
I am very grateful for the church I grew up in for many reasons. It is a place where I felt loved by a community and found friendship during times of being bullied at...
The Posture of Listening
She began her life in the United States in a Vietnamese refugee camp. Soon after she moved to Oregon and at some point met her New Zealander husband, settled down, and...
Eye of the Storm
We knew there would be rain. It's the Pacific Northwest. And it is La Niña. So there is always rain. What we did not know, when we escaped to the Oregon Coast for a...