Category Archives: Parenting

Giving Up Thanksgiving

It took me a while to accept the fact that Thanksgiving 2020 could not be like all the others. The only way to celebrate it right was to give it up for the year. Read my essay here in The Washington Post.

Read the rest here at The Washington Post. And/or read my previous Thanksgiving pieces right here on this site: “Grace for an Atheist Table” and “A Thanksgiving Paradox.”

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Who Knew? The Strangers WERE the Treat

I miss people I don’t know. A Halloween meditation at The Washington Post.

I have no idea who that nice lady is.

Read the rest, if you please, here at The Washington Post.

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Blindsided by The Blight

An essay about stupid, stubborn hope. (Art by Samia Ahmed.) Read the whole piece here at The Washington Post.

Read the rest at The Washington Post.

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