Standing with hope

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  • *Do it scared

    by Molly Klima I am not one to set New Year’s resolutions, but I’ve come to like setting goals. As 2018 came to an end I thought about what I wanted the next year to look like. I set some goals of things I wanted to accomplish, like running a 5k. At the end of 2019…

  • Christmas:magical or Sacred

    by molly klima Santa. Elf on the Shelf. Christmas plays. Manger scenes. Flashing lights and giant trees. Advent calendars with chocolate. Christmas songs and sleigh bells. Rudolph and clay-mation. Mini snow villages and Christmas cookies. Stockings and presents. Jingle Bell Rock on Christian radio stations. School party and weekly themes mania. Mariah Carey and Home…

  • *Part 2: Arbor and trisha

    by natalie tousley So yeah, my best friend’s dog died and it triggered emotions that I wasn’t prepared to revisit. The fact that the deaths and timelines were eerily similar was just dumb luck, but the fact that I’m still grieving the loss of one of my closest confidants is grief 101. For those of…

  • *Part 1: Arbor and Trisha

    by natalie tousley My best friend’s dog died a few weeks ago. As random and insignificant as that may sound, it was actually a harder event to process than it should have been.  Everything about the dog’s death was wrong: 1) she wasn’t old  2) she died of heart failure and 3) I found out…