Sacred Sleeplessness

“How’d you sleep?” was a common morning greeting in our family. My father’s regular reply – “It was good, what there was of it.”  Now, in recent years, sleep cycle researchers have taught us a lot about the importance of those hours we spend in bed.  Sleep is a...

Paying Attention

I’ve always had “a sensitive body,” one of those good/bad things, like being way taller or way shorter than other people. My body sends me messages that are hard to ignore, like red blotches on my face and puffiness around my eyes when I eat something like Mexican...

A Reason To Write

Yesterday was National Writing Day. In honor of that event I decided to share an experience I had this summer, while working on my upcoming mother’s memoir, Warrior Mother. Most everyone knows that no two people, present for the same event, are having the same...

United We Stand

Last weekend InterPlay Pittsburgh participated in the Building Change Conference: a convergence for social change. This three-day conference included skill-building workshops, panel discussions, community dialogues, a film festival, an art show, and an evening of...

Mission – Grandparenting

So what if my pajamas and items from my make up case and toiletry bag had to made two trips through the airport security scanners in Kansas City.  And so what if the rental car agent didn’t know if the freeway to Nebraska City had re-opened after being flooded a...

TOUGH INTO TRIUMPH

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