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• Living Beyond the Edge of the Circle | OHF Print Magazine, Issue No. 1
  "But as my kids have approached and now entered young adulthood, I’ve come to see the Serenity Prayer not as a contradiction but as a lifeline for the two halves of parenting"


• Serenity Now - A Parenting Prayer for Letting Go | Fathom Magazine
  "But as my kids have approached and now entered young adulthood, I’ve come to see the Serenity Prayer not as a contradiction but as a lifeline for the two halves of parenting"


• How Playing Soccer Freed My Creativity | Ascent Publication
  "Overcoming the fear of looking stupid takes practice. I found plenty of that practice when I took up soccer."


• The Haircut | P.S. I Love You - 2018 Nov front page feature
  "When my daughter came home from college this year in boyish clothes, she asked me to cut her hair. Short."


• My First Pride Festival | Ascent Publication
  "I can’t remember all that we were afraid of, but the answer is probably somewhere close to everything."


• The Already and the Not Yet of MLK | P.S. I Love You - Jan 2019 Editors Pick
  "Problem, Savior, Solution. Happy ending?"


• Remembering our Heritage | Our Human Family - Jul 2020 Front Page
  "I had been tempted to think of old Confederate symbols — and racism itself — as relics of a different time, like the last few boxes in our nation’s garage that we hadn’t yet purged."


• Learning to be Inefficient | Age of Empathy
  " She walked quickly, perhaps hoping I would notice and spare her the bravery of talking."


• Ride | P.S. I Love You Publication
  A surfer's poem for all who love the ocean