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April 12th, 2004
Buddhist Monk Teaches Kindness, Compassion, and Christ
I never understood the washing of the feet.
For newcomers, an explanation: each Holy Thursday at the Mass of the Lord's Supper, there is a ritual washing of at least ...
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February 19th, 2004
Or, How I Cleaned My Way to Cosmic Harmony
I'd been cleaning for weeks. It started the week before Thanksgiving; I had nine coming for Thanksgiving dinner and was damned if I didn't have a clean and organized ...
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January 12th, 2004
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just READ
The turning point was not being able to find a pew without a direct view of the dead saint's remains in that crystal coffin under the altar. The experience was so bad that I walked ...
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January 2nd, 2004
Stunning Tales of the Ultimate Sacrifice
Martyrs: Contemporary Writers on Modern Lives of Faith
Edited by Susan Bergman, HarperSanFrancisco (1998), 333 pages.
Bad ...
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December 25th, 2003
Celebrating Christmas Polish-American style
It's not Mary giving birth or the baby Jesus Himself that brings it to mind, but standing in the window watching for the first star to appear in the ...
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November 29th, 2003
A Stowaway Computer and the Mellower Me
My computer died, taking my last article—a tirade on the prevalence of thongs and stilettos in everyday women's wear—with it.
The PC that came to dinnerIt's a good thing I've ...
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November 23rd, 2003
In Maine with the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped
Gather forty strangers in one house and give them ten days to three weeks to learn music, dance routines, scenes, and monologues for a show open to the public.
Is ...
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November 1st, 2003
Especially if a Juror Has a Plane to Catch
The big red stripe ran the length of the white envelope proclaiming, Juror Summons Enclosed.
Jury duty.
I decided to take a positive attitude. Why not? They do pay forty bucks a day; it's a ...
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September 18th, 2003
New Book on a Spiritual Approach to Finding Your Direction
Getting a Life: How to Find Your True Vocation by Renée LaReau, Orbis (2003), 158 pages. It seems to me life improves drastically after you hit 30....
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May 1st, 2003
The Consequences; Surviving Cancer at 30
With my tongue outstretched and her hand on my pulse, the acupuncturist fired questions and conclusions at me:
"You worry too much. You think too much. Are you angry?"
I groaned ...
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February 7th, 2003
I read the reading from Genesis three times before I picked up on the rainbow. "I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth." ...
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January 5th, 2003
I stood on the corner looking into
the children's playground. At one o'clock on this chilly afternoon I found it empty after my walk in the park. Past the dry sprinklers were the two tire ...
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November 28th, 2002
A Supermarket Surplus Demands That We Share
Propped up against the wall of my tiny kitchen, absentmindedly chain eating Entenmanns's chocolate chip cookies, I was engrossed in an article from the Catholic Worker about the life of St. ...
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October 31st, 2002
The Redemption of Jack O'Lantern: A Fable
Jack O'Lantern sat in the glow of Hell's ember, carving yet one more pumpkin in replacement of the rotting moldy one currently housing the Devil's coal. Having been rejected by Heaven and ...
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September 11th, 2002
Taking to the Skies and Trusting in God
"Turbo props are ok. They won't hijack a turbo prop," my ex-boyfriend insisted as I squirmed and looked for more reasons not to fly to my upcoming family reunion four ...
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