Several years ago, my family sat around the dining room table reminiscing, and someone asked me what my worst vacation memory was….
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Thoughts
When You Don’t Feel Safe
I jumped off the boat into the Caribbean Sea, only to discover that despite my excitement to be snorkeling, the…
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How to Find Shark Teeth and the Will of God
My five-year-old son, Eli, loves both the ocean and all things dinosaur-related. When I learned about a beach near us…
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Love Changes Us, Then Changes the World
Pearl was the only child who had her own code at the zoo building where I worked. Whoever saw her…
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How to Rise Up When the World Brings Us Low
If I don’t recognize the number on the screen when my cell phone rings, I don’t answer. (Of course, I…
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How to Sing in the Dark
Every January when I was in high school, I joined hundreds of other students to perform for an annual choral…
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