Grace Notes ~
past columns

 

 

7 Apr 2008 Great Doctors and Babies

Miracles or Not

1 Apr 2008 You Can't Go To That Church!

No Church is Perfect, or Always Correct

25 Mar 2008 Walking Through Fear

Danger and living anyway

18 Mar 2008 The Smell of Angst

Challenging ourselves - 14 or not.

10 Mar 2008 How Dare Anyone Make Fun of Hope

Don't Dis Hope

3 Mar 2008 Having a Fake Face

Photoshopping out all the Wrinkles

25 Feb 2008 Psych Hospital

Psych Hospitals and some decency

18 Feb 2008 Touching and Feeling

Seriously, Reach out and Touch Someone

7 Feb 2008 Saving the World - Greg Mortenson

Mamas, School, Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea

21 Jan 2008 Movement Always

Limbs moving even when you don't want to......

14 Jan 2008 The Lie of Balance - Unicycles

A "balanced" life?

7 Jan 2008 Really Bad Teachers

Ducking Blow Hard People

1 Jan 2008 Hourglass and Doing It

Doing What You Must Do

25 Dec 2007 A Gift for My Readers

Rapberries and Hope

18 Dec 2007 Ignoring the Holiday's

Christmas isn't fun for everyone..........

7 Dec 2007 Ordinary Mexicans

Ordinary goodness for heaven's sake

21 Nov 2007 Chrysanthemums, Clydesdales

Mad December and paying attention

14 Nov 2007 Transitions - It Doesn't Ever Let Up

Transitions and boys dancing

5 Nov 2007 Nick Not Coming Home

Nick Walsh's Men Coming Home from Iraq

29 Oct 2007 Tabletops and Leaving Room

Clearning space

23 Oct 2007 Black Box

On suicide

15 Oct 2007 New Year's Promises (in October)

Just Do It

8 Oct 2007 Witchy Sharp Behavior

Angry Responses to Column

28 Sep 2007 Scoundreling Boys

navigating our sexualized world

24 Sep 2007 California Wildfires and Ding Dong People

California Wildfires/My sister

17 Sep 2007 Running (no air)

Trying to exercise

10 Sep 2007 9/11 Fences All Around

It  Ain't So Bad

4 Sep 2007 We All Fall Down

Sin

20 Aug 2007 Vacations

Putting up with each other

18 Aug 2007 Sound of Home

More Than One Home

16 Aug 2007 Flying Home

Definitions of Home

7 Aug 2007 Sacred Spot

The Sacred Place

31 Jul 2007 Small Meannesses

Wounding Others

22 Jul 2007 Bodies Running Like Water

Predators - Safety

16 Jul 2007 Pythons Very Big

Taking Chances - Killer Snakes

9 Jul 2007 Love Letter

Love Letter

1 Jul 2007 Berries, Dancing Bears, Scary God

intolerance

24 Jun 2007 The Skin of Old Men

Skin of Men

18 Jun 2007 Decent People

Military funeral - intolerance - peace

13 Jun 2007 Nicholas R. Walsh

US Marine - Nicholas R. Walsh

20 May 2007 Covered Nightlong

Caretaking

13 May 2007 Clouded Leopards

Column Purpose

8 May 2007 A Sweet and Sour Rip and Mend

Motherhood

29 Apr 2007 Cisis Rising, Peace Dropping Slow

Crisis, Shock

22 Apr 2007 Poems, Teachers, and Evil

Crisis - V Tech

15 Apr 2007 Dancing on the Edge

Risks

31 Mar 2007 Goodbye for Now

Transitions

25 Mar 2007 Dirt Clods

Find Joy

18 Mar 2007 Decorator Crab

God

11 Mar 2007 Knitting Club

Ghosts

4 Mar 2007 Thumb-Marks Burning Hot

Blind Faith

18 Feb 2007 Enchantment

Education

17 Feb 2007 Valentine - Doiles

Love

4 Feb 2007 Death Anniversaries

Mourning

28 Jan 2007 Doc the Dog

Depression

21 Jan 2007 Balderdash

Prayer - Iraq

14 Jan 2007 Yeat's Innisfree

Mind Peace

7 Jan 2007 Leavings in Corners

Tranisitions

31 Dec 2006 Resolutions and Tarantula Legs

Failures

24 Dec 2006 The Stark Demands of Faith

Faith - Mary

17 Dec 2006 Just Come Undone

Demands of December

10 Dec 2006 Sexual Predators

Crime

26 Nov 2006 Hold Your Peace

Demands of December

19 Nov 2006 Boy-Pies

Perfection

12 Nov 2006 Back from the Brink

Gay Marriage

5 Nov 2006 Hawks and Such

Church Authority

29 Oct 2006 The Ritual of Not Knowing

Rituals

22 Oct 2006 Amish Awe is Too Easy

Crime - grief

15 Oct 2006 Children Know of Monsters

Fearful Images

8 Oct 2006 Lead Balloons and Psycho Killers

Crime - Crisis

1 Oct 2006 Circadian Rhythm

Transitions

24 Sep 2006 Scary Veggies

Fear Mongering

17 Sep 2006 Body Betrayal

Illness - Injury

10 Sep 2006 Making Mind and Banana Cream Pie

Grief, healing.

3 Sep 2006 Gentle Me (Head Injury)

Anger, fury, rage.

27 Aug 2006 Buzzing, Blaring, Bam

Being Still

20 Aug 2006 Jews and Santa

Jews and Christmas

6 Aug 2006 Shopping Cart Anger

Anger

30 Jul 2006 The Keeping Disease

Saving Things

23 Jul 2006 The Car Guys

Crisis

16 Jul 2006 Cadence

Prayer

9 Jul 2006 Stinky

Finding a way out

24 Jun 2006 Snakes

Bravery

24 Jun 2006 Movie Backing, Wow,and the Space Shuttle

Rockets

16 Jun 2006 Father's Day

Stories and Fathers

6 Jun 2006 It Already Is

Importance of Names

4 Jun 2006 Women's Bodies and the Fray

Body Image

26 May 2006 Voice, Memory, Heed

Marking Death

14 May 2006 Shelter

Motherhood

7 May 2006 Mount Rushmore and Dumb Luck

Wanting a baby