The awkward stage: love’s secret agent
Thank goodness for poet Lawrence Raab. In “My Life Before I Knew It” he says everything I wanted to tell my kids about heading off regret and seeing grace at work in your life.
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Death series, part four: Dress rehearsal
Vanishing by Lawrence Raab First you worry that you’ll never get what you want, later that you’ll lose what you have. In between for a time you just trusted the course of your life, assumed things would fall into place. Most of them did. But now, not quite all of a sudden, every […]
MoreThe Rest not restful at all
The Rest by Lawrence Raab You’ve tried the rest. You’ve waited long enough. Everything catches up with you. And you’re too old, or too young. Or you don’t have the money or you don’t have the time. Maybe you’re shy, and maybe you’re just afraid. How often have you heard […]
MoreSo about my last post . . .
I’m thinking about Miss Emily Litella today. For those too young to remember the Saturday Night Live character created by Gilda Radner, Emily Litella was a commentator on Weekend Update back when Jane Curtain anchored. Miss Litella was a daffy little lady with a high voice and a hearing impairment. She was invited on the […]
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Marriage By Lawrence Raab Years later they find themselves talking about chances, moments when their lives might have swerved off for the smallest reason. What if I hadn’t phoned, he says, that morning? What if you’d been out, as you were when I tried three times the night before? Then she tells […]
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