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A week or so ago, Kimberlyn sent me an essay she wrote, asking if I thought it was too long for this blog.

It began like this:

I spent the weekend in Glen Rose, Texas at the Fall Leadership Conference hosted by the SWUUC . I attended the “Beyond Fundraising” track, led by Wayne B. [...]

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
by Leo Buscaglia
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Those of you who attended church on Sunday the 15th know that we had a live reading of The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, instead of a video presentation, for our dramatic moment. The author credit was accidentally left out of the [...]

Guest Post from Dr. Janine Talty, D.O., M. P. H.

It was the spring of 1997 and I was treating one of my dearest friends and colleague, after hours in my clinic after a long day of seeing very complicated orthopedic medicine and chronic pain patients. Ron was a 57 year old psychologist who was scheduled the following morning to have a thoracotomy performed [...]

Reading Matters: Buffalo Gal by Laura Pedersen

Buffalo Gal
Laura Pedersen
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I first heard about Laura Pedersen’s memoir Buffalo Gal when I was browsing UU World a week or so ago. I was caught by her sense of humor and the fact that she’s roughly my contemporary (five years older, but we watched the same TV shows). I mean, how often [...]

Reading Matters: Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Writing Down the Bones
by Natalie Goldberg
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This isn’t a book review.

Many people stopped me after church last week to ask for the title and author of the writing book I mentioned, so I thought I’d link it here as the inaugural post for the new category “reading matters.”

What’s this category for? [...]