It wasn’t quite the Tangina Barrons moment I was hoping for. Remember the scene from the movie Poltergeist, after Tangina (a medium played memorably by the…
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In retrospect, a hurricane-scarred sea island was the right place and a perfect metaphor for celebrating my five-year cancer survivorship milestone. The lovely Sarah took…
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“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink…” (Matt 25:35) The young man with the gray…
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I had the extraordinary privilege of being part of a sacred gathering of some of the LGBTQ members of my St. John’s Lutheran Church family…
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Sometimes it seems cancer diagnoses come in waves. I traveled to and from Washington, DC, in the span of 26 hours last week. During that…
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It’s been an amazing year. So many wonderful, dreams-come-true events have happened, but none of it would matter if I weren’t surrounded by loving friends…
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My last few posts have been pretty dark, full of the “hard Eucharisteo” that comes with being grateful in the face of life’s challenges. To…
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As I write this, there are two beautiful women I know who are under hospice care. For both, ovarian cancer has brought them to this…
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Held my very first book-signing event at my church Friday night. Why at church? My family at St. John’s has been vital to our lives…
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Lately I’ve been captivated by a song called “Finishing the Hat.” It’s from Stephen Sondheim’s 1984 musical Sunday in the Park with George, a fictional…