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Living and Growing: Choose empathy during these difficult times
“It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.” — Horace
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Gimme A Smile: What to say when you’ve got nothing to say
It could happen, right? Despite your very best efforts, you could find yourself in the baffling predicament of…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Braised carrots with garlic and thyme
When I was growing up, my parents never, ever served cooked carrots for dinner. Nor were they even…
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Living and Growing: The bear
The folks of Southeast Alaska are fortunate in that we sometimes experience glimpses of bears along the trails…
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Living and Growing: Practicing true patience
“Have patience, have patience, Don’t be in such a hurry, When you get impatient, you only start to…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Easy cinnamon rolls
My father really loved cinnamon rolls. In his later years I would make bargains with him in which…
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Living and Growing: The numbers tell the story
I love numbers and math. One of my first career aspirations was to be a high school math…
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Living and Growing: Spiritual self defense
True spiritual power is quiet, under the radar. One beautiful thing about it is that it can protect…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Shrimp gumbo for Mardi Gras
I love gumbo. Several years ago I was lucky enough to go to New Orleans and sample it…
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Living and Growing: Let us journey together in hope
Friends, we are a little over a week away from the beginning of the season of Lent, the…
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Gimme A Smile: Looking for spring in all the wrong places
Is it spring yet? Is it spring yet? We’re through Valentine’s Day, so spring is next, right?
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Living and Growing: Seeing is believing
Christians are nearing the time of Lent, 40 days of repentance and fasting, before the celebration of Easter.…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Chinese-style fried rice
At most of the Chinese restaurants I’ve eaten at over the years, the fried rice accompanying the meal…
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Living and Growing: Gathering to share ‘Faith in the Future’
First, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge that we are on the traditional territory of…
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Woven Peoples and Place: A conversation with regional catalysts for economic development and mariculture
A growing contingent of Southeast Alaskans are driving local economic transformation toward sustainability and Indigenous leadership. Traditional industries…
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Living and Growing: The light of the world
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has dawned upon you.”
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Cooking For Pleasure: Orange apricot muffins for breakfast
A few years ago when I had a bag of oranges and a half eaten bag of dried…
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Living and Growing: Watching our words for other people
I could be wrong, but the only time Jesus directly talks about Hell is in Matthew 5:22, “But…
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Gimme A Smile: Help me up
I fell on the ice the other day. One minute, I was carefully picking my way along the…
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Living and Growing: Imagine the comfort of Jesus’ promise of heaven
Earlier this month, former president Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100. While factors like double-digit inflation,…