Author Archives: seeingfaith

What Happened?

Posted on February 20, 2014 by seeingfaith

So it’s been roughly a year since my last post to this blog. The good news is that I didn’t meet some untimely death doing the Spartan Race that I wrote about last year (although I did manage to tear … Continue reading →

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Catharsis while training for the Spartan Race

Posted on February 21, 2013 by seeingfaith

Today I returned to my favorite cross-country ski trail – Peru Creek in Keystone, Colorado. While my trip on this trail last year was a serene and spiritual experience, this year was very different. Now I’m training for a Spartan … Continue reading →

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Our (first) year without a Santa Claus

Posted on December 16, 2012 by seeingfaith

It was bound to happen sooner or later. After years of dodging the bullet with elaborate explanations of how Santa deploys state-of-the-art Supply Chain Management systems to deliver all those presents around the world in one night, my younger children … Continue reading →

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After a day in The Rockaways

Posted on November 7, 2012 by seeingfaith

As I trudged past towering piles of sand and moldering debris in the Far Rockaways today, I was suddenly reminded of a motorcycling accident I had in my early twenties. My boyfriend at the time was taking me for a … Continue reading →

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What should I teach my kids about the election?

Posted on October 5, 2012 by seeingfaith

As election day approaches, politics has become a common topic of conversation at my kids’ elementary school. Last week my 5th grade daughter had to watch the first presidential debate and then discuss it in class. When I asked Emmy … Continue reading →

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My label-free children

Posted on October 3, 2012 by seeingfaith

“Hey guys – do you know why there’s no school today? It’s Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and the most important Jewish holiday.” It was September 26th, and I was taking the kids and the coon hound to the … Continue reading →

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Be not conformed to this world…on picture day

Posted on September 24, 2012 by seeingfaith

Tomorrow is picture day at my kids’ elementary school, and this year is a big one: my daughter is in fifth grade. While the children in the other grades usually sport a range of attire (with my kids typically at … Continue reading →

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Pushing Muslim Buttons

Posted on September 18, 2012 by seeingfaith

My eight-year old twin sons are masters at pushing each other’s buttons. In a matter of seconds, one small provocation can transform peaceful playtime into Armageddon.  Usually the dispute is over something unbelievably stupid, like who has the right to … Continue reading →

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Searchin’ for the Sabbath

Posted on September 14, 2012 by seeingfaith

Mom – when are we going to have time to do nothing? My eight-year old son Andrew recently asked this question after we’d been going non-stop for the past 48 hours. Andrew, who loves to read, play Legos, and just … Continue reading →

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Selfish Sainthood

Posted on August 29, 2012 by seeingfaith

Last week I almost died. Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but there was definitely a scary moment where I thought things might go poorly. We were still in Aruba, and the kids had decided that they wanted … Continue reading →

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