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There is a Song Inside of You Yet
The ever-brilliant Nadia Bolz-Weber advises us to preach from our scars, and not from open wounds. It’s solid advice, and advice that I try generally to follow in my writing, not just because writing...
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They Lied When They Told Me I Could Have it All
I read the other day that you do most of your living in the first twenty years of your existence and the rest of it is just trying to process that living. I don’t know yet if this is the most...
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We Have to Dance Even When the World is Shit
Times like this I worry. I worry about you guys and about myself too: the feelers of the world, the people who take this shit news storm (innocent people are dying senselessly, another musician is gone...
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I wrote a commencement speech that no one asked for. Here’s why: By virtue simply of having 654 children, I spend a lot of my life with today’s youth, and I couldn’t be more excited about the ways...
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We Sure Do Have Our Hands Full
Maybe it’s the slightly crazed and manic expression I wear on my face when I go out with all four children in public, or maybe it’s the way my shoulders droop towards the ground with exhaustion like an...
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And This is Everything I Know For Sure
Last week I did something that scared the shit out of me. I stood up in front of a group of incredible women and I bared my soul. Here are some of the words I spoke. If you have been with me for a...
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