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  • Genesis 1: 1-13: Beginnings

    The book of Genesis, meaning beginning, starts with God creating our world. It says the Earth was formless and empty and the spirit hovered over the face of the waters. God said, let there be light, and there was light.  While Genesis starts our modern Bible, chronologically the oldest book, Job, references the foundation of…

  • Dreams & Goals

    Christmas eve this year, I sat on the bed wrapping gifts and chain-binging Christmas movies. One was a Hallmark story where a big city gal goes to back to her Southern hometown for the holidays. While the characters were awkwardly churning through lines that someone spent five seconds writing, the romantic lead said he was…

  • A.I.Pocalypse

    I haven’t had a scary dream in years, but I had one recently. It was the kind that had me shook.  I dreamed that a computer virus went through all the files and redid them all in the style of artificial intelligence art and ChatGPT writing. The result was that everything looked and sounded similar,…

  • Modern Mammals 

    In one of my recent notes, I mentioned some symptoms of the change of life I’ve been struggling through. If you’re a male reader, please don’t leave, fellows need to know about this too.  The first stages went by pretty fast. First, I was a girl minding her own business, then Aunt Flow showed up…

  • Home Sweet Home

    Despite humans being able view to the moon, stars and galaxies, we cannot live very well beyond the outer limits of our globe. Those two astronauts that got stuck on the international space station had to be carted off in wheelchairs up after their planned 8-day trip turned into a grueling nine months. A person…

  • Swampland

    The land behind my home growing up was an old building site. It had bad drainage and had been abandoned. It was our playground the place that I return to in my dreams.  Every dark winter the uneven ground would fill up with water, all dank and boggy with brown skeletons of broken reeds and…

  • Back to the Past

    Netflix has the movie Back to the Future playing for the last few days of September, and I watched it last night. It originally came out in the Eighties when I was in third grade.  It was a big deal, everyone was talking about it.  Back then, it was a straight forward adventure story of…

  • Stay’n Alive

    I took my kid to the pediatric cardiologist today. It was in the medical building complex up the hills of Portland where they have Dorenbacher’s, Shriners and Oregon Health Sciences University Hospitals—all the best medicine we have available to modern humans. The reason we went was to keep my youngest healthy. While she didn’t have…

  • The Tutorial

    Last week I started a new side-gig, tutoring middle schoolers after school. It’s a program in Cornelius, a smaller community just west of Hillsboro. The time commitment is just 90 minutes, twice a week, but still managed to make me nervous starting out. I’ve been instructing adults for the last two decades, so it’s been…

  • YOLO

    I am laying here in bed trying to sort out some decisions that have come up. In life, there’s mostly a lot of mundane choices, but sometimes there are brief windows of opportunity. The phrase “you only live once” flits through my mind. I think that term was trending a decade ago. This time ten…