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Living and Growing: The storms of the Fall
Psalm 19
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Gimme A Smile: Halloween/Election Day merger
We’ve got a couple of important holidays coming up: Halloween and Election Day. But the budget is tight…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Sheet pan tomato soup
Whenever I get my hair done at Salon Cedar, owner Brendan Sullivan and I talk about food nonstop.…
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Living and Growing: The eye of the needle
One day, a rich young man approached Jesus, asking him what he had to do to inherit eternal…
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Living and Growing: Joy after sorrow during celebration of Sukkot
As you read this column Jews around the world are preparing to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot, or…
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Neighbors events, announcements and awards for the week of Oct. 20
More than 100 vintage cookie jars on sale during Oct. 26 benefit for church
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Cooking for Pleasure: Nine-hour pork roast with crackling
For a few months now I have been craving an old-fashioned pork roast, one with the skin on…
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Living and Growing: The power of real hope
Highly compatible, Larry and my strength was in our ability to merge our individual gifts into one, which…
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Living and Growing: Common ground. Common kindness.
I write this piece from the perspective of one who believes in God and who tries (and fails…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Green salad with blackberries, pecans, pears and blue cheese
This is an unusual salad that I love to serve as a first course for a company dinner.…
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Gimme A Smile: Procrasti-cleaning anyone?
I just wiped off the tops of my washer and dryer, and then went back with a damp…
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Living and Growing: Restored icons — image and likeness
This past month at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, we had the great blessing to see two of…
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Living and Growing: 10 things you can do to be happy
What is happiness? What makes you happy? Can you increase your happiness? These are very interesting and current…
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Living and Growing: Environmental stewardship — a Baha’i perspective
To begin, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge that we are on the traditional territory…
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Living and Growing: After the flood
It is Ordinary Time, the Season of Increase, the Season of Creation.
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Cooking for Pleasure: Crisp sugar cookies with your choice of flavors
When I was about 14 years old I babysat for a very fine cook who gave me this…
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Living and Growing: A life hack for happiness in a flooding river of change
Fall is upon us and with it change. School is starting, leaves are changing colors, schedules change and…
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Gimme A Smile: Enjoy the ritual of the campfire
The campfire is a summer tradition. Who doesn’t love sitting on a slimy log, batting away mosquitoes while…
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Living and Growing: The Eucharist
If you hear about a place where the purest and most precious gem is given free of charge,…