Items tagged Father

• All we like sheep

  Our attempts at self-preservation deny a larger reality.

• Late night thoughts on what being a parent teaches about being God

  A parent of two following The One Rule learns a bit about the nature of the Parent of us all.

• Death and birth

  Reflections on becoming a parent.

• Fragments of a sort of Midwestern hagiography

  Sometime the saint is in our blood.

• Cards on the table

  What happens when we give one another permission to hold us accountable?

• An un-quiet existence

  What a quiet kid learned about identity and parenting from her own small town upbringing.

• A reason to smile

  A daughter’s medical condition requires finding a way to confront and understand death and suffering.

• Storytelling

  Thoughts from a writing teacher and father-to-be.

• Danyale’s wedding

  A story about a man, a woman, a ceremony and more.

• A chisel to remember him by

  A simple tool can tell a book’s worth of memories.