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A Three-Year Tapestry

Braid reaches a milestone this week: our third birthday. As always, milestones allow us an opportunity to consider the past and lessons learned, as well as to...
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Presence In Many Forms

As an aunt whose nieces and nephew live in other parts of the country, I am a big fan of Face Time. I have often celebrated and...
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Responding to Charlottesville

This weekend, I was mostly at a loss as I watched from afar what was happening in Charlottesville. Sickening news reports were balanced in my Facebook feed...
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Last week Braid received some big news. We learned that we are among 15 semifinalists for The Encore Prize, a national competition that will award $50,000 to...
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The Grand Adventure

“There’s a spider in here! I am going to die!,” was the scream from the back of the rather large rental vehicle. “Yes,” yelled the other three...
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The Mixed Emotions of Going to Camp

I remember well the summer I was 9 years old, when my parents packed me off to sleep-away camp. I had been to a shorter overnight camp...
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The Water Cycle

It is easy to forget in our world of technological and medical advances that the ancients could be quite advanced for their time and history. The great...
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Remembering the Keys

When I was six years old, my mom claimed an old upright piano that a local elementary school was giving away and signed me up for lessons....
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The Thin Places

There is a passage in the Quran that informs Muslims that Allah is closer to humans than their jugular vein. In Japanese Buddhism there is a wonderful...
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It’s Not Too Late

This week I’ve been wrestling (again) with one of the most difficult stories I’ve ever heard. A couple weeks ago I reflected on a Bible story about...
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