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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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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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Making Room

I have been thinking a lot this week about hospitality. In my home growing up, our family’s out-of-town guests slept on a pullout sofa in the den,...
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On the Move

Well…we are moving again. “We” in this instance is not a reference to Braid but to the Chase family. We have moved several times over the years...
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My Closed Adoption and the Movement to Change the System

Serena is a member of California Youth Connection, an organization that helps foster youth learn leadership and advocacy skills. She originally wrote this piece for The Chronicle of...
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The Real Magic of Mentoring

We eat a lot of chocolate at Braid. In our first month here, we discovered Recchiuti Confections in the Dogpatch neighborhood and signed up with a frequent customer...
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Let’s Make Change

I was 11 when parents split up and I had to live with my mother. She was very abusive and really bad with alcohol. I tried to...
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Braid Goes to the Capitol

Last month we received a wonderful honor on the steps of California's State Capitol building. We were in Sacramento to join our colleagues and friends from California...
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Braid Goes to Kindergarten

Last month, the chaplain at St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Oakland, The Rev. Annie Mertz, contacted us about participating in a project for the holiday season. When...
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The Good Dinosaur

This post is from our friend and colleague Jamie Lee Evans, director of the Y.O.U.T.H. Training Project. She writes a review of Pixar's new movie The Good Dinosaur...
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