Author Archives: Barbara

The Writing Room: Write About My Aging Mother? I Don’t Think So . . .

Ten reasons why I’m finding it impossible to write about my 92-year-old mother, even though she’s all I can think about right now . . . .

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A Case of the Human Condition: A Half Century Later I’m Still a Size 10 (or 12)

I wore a size 10 in high school way back in 1959 and a size 12 in college. That was twenty plus pounds ago, but I can still squeeze into size 10 (or 12) jeans. Am I remembering my young self all wrong?

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A Case of the Human Condition: Respect for Our Undeserving Elders

“Move,” said my 6-year-old son Peter to his grandmother. “I want to get by.” My mother looked up from her book and gave my son a hard look.

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GodsBigBlog: The Hagia Sophia - Where Christianity and Islam Meet

As a Christian living in a mostly Christian country, I’ve never really known how it feels to have one’s faith and its most cherished symbols obliterated by a colonizing force. Until I stepped inside the Hagia Sophia.

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The Writing Room: And My (Serious) Case of the Human Condition

Driving home the other day from just one of countless visits to my mom at the hospital, I had to ask myself , why aren’t I writing about her?

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