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Hope Came Down For The Helpless
As part of our family’s tradition of watching Christmas movies during the holidays, this year we chanced upon (i.e. Netflix strongly “suggested”), “Spirited” starring Will Farrell and Ryan Reynolds.
(If you haven’t watched the movie yet, be warned, there may be spoilers up ahead.)
The movie is a musical reimagining of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas ...
A Christmas Lesson From A Coffee Shop
The Toffee Crunch Mocha Latte called my name.
I deliberated over the other options.
The americano with a splash of milk. Way fewer calories.
The cappuccino with a foamy heart. Way more sensible.
The south Indian filter coffee. Way more familiar.
But the Toffee Crunch Mocha Latte was just more… holiday-y. This is the season to indulge, they say. So ...
A Christmas “Activity” You Won’t Want To Miss
Women are getting angrier.
At least that’s what a recent poll reveals.
An annual survey by Gallup suggests that women, on average worldwide, have been getting angrier over the past 10 years. In 2012 both genders reported anger and stress at similar levels. But more recently, it was found that women were angrier—by six percentage points. The ...
God Doesn’t Look For This – An Advent Meditation
Back in my teen years, I wanted to be a captain. Not the captain of a ship. Nor of a football team. But the captain of a house. Let me explain.
At my high school, the entire student body was divvied into four teams that we called “houses.” Each house had a captain and vice-captain. These ...
A is for Apple…and Advent
“I don’t have a snack today because my mom didn’t have money to buy me anything,” she says with a brave smile. She tries her best to sound nonchalant about the fact that while the other kids eat their cookies and fruit, she won’t have anything to munch on.
I think about my overstuffed shelves jammed ...
Your Imperfect Story Can Speak Volumes
Incidental.
That word has an undeniably Hollywood blockbuster ring to it. (Don’t think so? Read this in your best movie trailer voice: “Incidentals, Coming to theaters, Summer 2023.” Told ya.)
But other than sounding like a movie title, the word usually connotes something which is non-essential or minor or inconsequential to the overall scheme of things.
If we ...
We Need This More Than We Know
Sitting in the second row of the auditorium, I watched as my daughter and the rest of the choir filed onto the stage. Dressed in black and white, they looked like piano keys and my heart played a proud, happy tune.
Being an overenthusiastic, trigger-happy mama, I leaned forward to speak to the two ladies in ...
Do You Need To Get This Checked?
As my family and I traveled through rural Rajasthan (a state in North India) while on vacation last week, we saw several jaw-droppingly interesting sights.
We passed by camels hauling carts of hay, an elegant regality in their stride. We spotted women, dressed in brilliantly vibrant reds and yellows, herding stubborn buffalos through dusty streets. We ...
Is It Supposed To Make Sense?
My mom called this morning to say that there had been a tragedy in my nephew’s dorm at his university in Indiana. Just a few floors below him, in the very same building, a student had stabbed his roommate to death. The student who committed the crime had called 911 and turned himself in. My ...
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