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What I learned about fuel in 2013
A year ago I decided that I would focus this year on fuel: all the ways that I give my body and soul what they need so that I can give the people around me what they need. I focused on fuel as much as...
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How to make your life easier in 2014
This was one of my favorite and most popular posts last year. Rather than making sweeping resolutions for 2014 I’m trying to stick to the little stuff, so I thought it might be a good idea to share...
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7 ways to make yourself nicer
The funniest thing happened this week, more than once: I was not completely hideous in a social situation. I’m exaggerating (about it being the funniest thing, not about my level of un-hideousness),...
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Why we blame ourselves (and why I won’t anymore)
Without going into the amount of detail that I’m sure my regular visitors are tired of reading, sometimes my Crohn’s causes pain and nausea, both of which often manifest in a grimace. Often that...
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On eating a tomato sandwich in October
Say what you will about my father, but the man knows how to grow a mean tomato. Every year, during what New Englanders can still quaintly call “harvest time”, that time when we race the calendar to...
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When Lent can’t be about playing with your food
Food is literally what gets us through the day. It gathers us together, it gives us joy, it affects our bodies, and it inspires our creativity. For these reasons I’ve never poo-poohed making a...
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7 Lenten ideas that have nothing to do with candy
I’m reposting one of my favorite collections of spiritual suggestions, full of resources for a fruitful Lent. Rather than try to come up with a new batch of ideas, why not stick with what works?...
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The privilege of eating; the privilege of flesh
A year ago I was beautiful. ***** One sunny afternoon on our second summer in Assisi, Robert and I decided to explore the bosco, a forest walk next to the Basilica into a valley where Francis is...
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What I’m into, March 2017
March: busy, musical, Lenten. Here’s what I’ve been into. Books God Moments: Unexpected Encounters in the Ordinary I was delighted to get an early peek at Andy Otto’s God Moments which releases...
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Eating a tomato sandwich in October
My father grows the best tomatoes. Every year, during what New Englanders can still quaintly call “harvest time”, that time when we race the calendar to make the most of what we have tended to all...
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