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Family & Relationships

Best friends

Remembering the transformation of objects in a time of mourning.

 

Clutching Dust and Stars

Chapter Four:  I'm Not as Think as You Drunk I Am - from the newly published novel by Laryn Kragt Bakker (published by *culture is not optional).

A piece of that holiday pie

On a tradition that binds what's past, even as it teaches for the future.

 

A peaceable feast

Navigating family culinary traditions around the holidays with grace and vision.

Clutching Dust and Stars

Chapter Five:  Mommy, What Were Trees Like? - from the newly published novel by Laryn Kragt Bakker (published by *culture is not optional).

 

A wonderful life

On family rituals as occasions to pass down heirloom memories of joy and sorrow.

Clutching Dust and Stars

Chapter Six:  Kill Your TV - from the newly published novel by Laryn Kragt Bakker (published by *culture is not optional).

 

Clutching Dust and Stars

Chapter Seven: Art Saves Lives - from the newly published novel by Laryn Kragt Bakker (published by *culture is not optional).

Upon a midnight clear

How a firstborn daughter arrived just in time for Christmas.

 

Birthing a dying child

On wrestling with powerlessness in the wake of a baby's short life.