This blog is an irreverent look my mid-life “emotional growth spurt.”
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Cross Cultural Illumination #2: Mam I’m Praying
I was very excited at the prospect of picking up Mahmoud at the detention center, after he received asylum. I felt like a tour guide introducing him to a kinder,…
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Cross Cultural Illumination #1: It is a Cat-Dog
Dinner with two recent Ethiopian Asylees shine a light on Americans’ curious personification of pets. One of the most puzzling American habits to those new the USA is our treatment…
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Lenten Challenge #5: Rebooting Your Approach to the Dark Times
This Lent, I’ve been preoccupied with dark subjects. I’ve written about people who don’t have enough to eat, about pernicious ingrown racist attitudes and about innocent Asylum Seekers thrown in…
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Lenten Challenge #4: Rebooting The American Way
“You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” As a Blue State liberal, I was never a big flag waver. In fact it made me a little uneasy to…
Meet The Modern Day Church Lady: Dorothy Wetzel
I call my blog, “The Adventures of a Modern Day Church Lady,” because being part of a “progressively minded” church has been one of my greatest sources of inspiration for my growth spurt. Church takes me on adventures—intellectually, spiritually and literally—bringing me to places I would never go on my own, like Haiti, Sierra Leone and even jail. My worldview is ever expanding.
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