Family
Faith and Family: The Joys and Challenges of Caregiving
Forever etched in my mind is an image of my oldest daughter, Maddie, sitting at the bedside of her grandma—my mom—at the hospice center shortly before my mom’s death.
Maternal Wisdom on the Mother Road
Perhaps the most iconic emblem of Americana is the nostalgic and, at one time, singularly essential stretch of highway known as Route 66. Known universally as the “Mother Road,” I often wondered how this namesake came to be. In bucket-list ...
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Faith and Family: The Many Faces of Pilgrimage
Sometimes, we have to travel to places on our own. Those can be real-life destinations or they can be journeys inward.
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Faith and Family: Where Technology and Humanity Meet
As a proud member of Gen X, I can remember life both before and after the boom of the Internet.
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Faith and Family: A Parental Gut Check
So many firsts and lasts flying at you can elicit a lot of emotions and reflection. It certainly has for me.
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Thank You, Mom
With this Mother's Day, I have an opportunity to simply say to my mom, “Thank you.” And, perhaps not so simply, “I’m sorry.”
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Faith and Family: Lessons from the Road
Hanging in our house is a large corkboard map of the United States. On the board are various pins placed on locations across the country, each one marking a place to which we have traveled.
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