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The Shack

I thought I could avoid this little chat altogether until I read Katherine Jeffrey’s review of The Shack in Books & Culture, January/February 2010.  You can read it here. Jeffrey was brief and fair on the literary merit of The Shack.  The book is not beautifully written, but then the message is not in the […]

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Dolls, Jesus, and Christmas Eve

Last summer, I saw the pattern for this doll in Alicia Paulson’s Stitched in Time: Memory-Keeping Projects to Sew and Share, and immediately thought, “Liliana would love that!”  Since Paulson had been to The Nutcracker with her girls, she thought it would be fun to give them a Clara doll–matching their personal specs (blonde hair, […]

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Rejuvenating Vacay in Your Jammies

This time of year, when we’re inundated with all the stuff we have to buy, all the guilt that we really should be adding that person to our list, it’s nice to enjoy a little joy for ourselves.  Kind of like cocooning yourself away in your own private happy place.  Even if it is for […]

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The Practice of Gratitude

Today is a day of gifts. Right before we left for the sunny Caribbean, I heard a very simple, yet remarkable podcast with Oprah and Sarah Ban Breathnach, the author of several Simple Abundance books (for years, I’ve had the Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy, but have never read it). Sarah was […]

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Muhammad’s Favorite Wife

What is truth, really?  How do we separate what we’ve been told in childhood from truth?  And how do we find the truth as adults?  For some of us, finding it is imperative, because somewhere, buried deep in our bone marrow is the feeling that some things are true, some are false.  The difficult question […]

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