Take a Hike. Seriously.

A few days ago I was talking to my older daughter on FaceTime. (I haven’t hugged her since December. O the pain!) She had hit an emotional wall over the weekend, mourning the state of society and feeling more than a little claustrophobic.   She and her husband live in San Francisco, which has been locked down longer and harder than anywhere else in the US. For months they have been sheltering…

A Prayer for Times When We Don’t Know How to Pray

A few days ago my husband glanced up from his computer and noticed an open garage door down the street. Our neighbor, a Denver police officer, was dressed in black riot gear and heading for his car.   We walked outside to talk to him before he left for another sixteen-hour shift downtown, where hundreds of protesters have gathered daily in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. Like his fellow…