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My Mom, the Mantle and Christmas Decoration Nostaglia

My Mom, the Mantle and Christmas Decoration Nostaglia

The Christmas season is steeped in nostalgia, and rarely more so than in the decorations handed down over the years. When my father passed away in 2017, my four siblings and I gathered to sort through our parent’s remaining possessions. The Christmas boxes seemed to...

Making Parenthood Great Again

Making Parenthood Great Again

Earlier this week I was sitting in the living room of a friend, a woman who had lost her husband of 57 years just a few days earlier. A small tabletop Christmas tree stood in the window, its festive glow belying the somberness of the moment. Both of the widow’s sons...

The LGBT Rewriting of History

The LGBT Rewriting of History

Last month marked the one-year anniversary of a mass shooting at the “Club Q,” a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs. The shooter, who killed five people and wounded 19 others, received multiple life sentences in June for his crimes, as well an additional sentence for...