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Dad’s Obituary (a joint effort by us kids)
After a year of defiantly living, beating all odds against him, Jack Vandermay went to his eternal home with Jesus and joined the best and biggest family reunion…
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Jack.
March 3, 2025 When I think of my Dad, I think of stories. There’s the book kind, like The Night Before Christmas he read aloud to us each…
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The Dark.
April 2, 2021 For Good Friday and Holy Week. The dark. I was afraid of the dark. When I was little, the dark terrified me. My Mom was…
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A Naked Party
February 9, 2011 at 11:01pm A few years ago, I was in Colorado Challenge with some amazing young women from our youth group. One night, after a particulary…
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Bev’s Marginalia – April 5, 2025
Marginalia. It’s the notes scratched into the margins of a book. It’s scribblings in the open space that are evidence that someone is engaging with the words on the page.…
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For Advent – Dec. 1, 2024
For Advent. From Tish Harrison Warren. To practice Advent is to lean into an almost cosmic ache: our deep, wordless desire for things to be made right and…
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