“The garden has always been my joy. Before Pop (Ma’s deceased husband of nearly 50 years) died we worked in it together. I have pushed a plow all over this garden. Don’t you think Pop is proud of my crop?” It was more of a statement than a question. “I believe he sees a...
For a while, I also made that erroneous connection after my daughter Mary died by intentional overdose in 1995. Because her father and I were away for a day of prayer on the Sunday of her death, I asked myself repeatedly whether Mary had timed her suicide as a deliberate rejection of he...
came this invocation to the Tulsa, OK City Council. I am reprinting it here, with Amy Hardy-McAdams permission. This prayer was inspired by a Medusa sigil and Ritual created by Laura Tempst Zakroff and Ms. Amy asked that full credit be given, and I certainly agree. And here ...
On a Sunday night there were a dinner party at the country club and a tryst at a roadside tourist cabin and a prayer meeting at the Lutheran Church and three drunks telling lies in the men’s room of the bus depot and a Negro child dying f leukemia on Jitney Street and a young coup...
Arnold Phillip Shortman is the protagonist of the TV series Hey Arnold!, and related media. He is Gerald's best friend and, as of Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie, Helga's boyfriend (beforehand, he was secretly the object of Helga's affections). Arnold was