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Author Archives: seeingfaith
What Happened?
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
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
Posted in Nature, Spirituality
Tagged asceticism, Circuit Training, cross-country skiing, exercise, Faith, mysticism, Peru Creek, Spartan Race, Spirituality
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Our (first) year without a Santa Claus
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
Posted in Parenting
Tagged belief in Santa, Christmas, Faith, kids, parenting, Santa Claus
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After a day in The Rockaways
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
What should I teach my kids about the election?
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
Posted in Parenting
Tagged elementary school, Jim Lehrer, Jon Stewart, kids, moderate, parenting, playground politics, Presidential debate, presidential election
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Be not conformed to this world…on picture day
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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Tagged Captain Underpants, conformity, Faith, Jesus, parenting, picture day
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