by Jody | Wedding Warrior
I’m what is often called a “pastoral officiant.” In short, I do mostly weddings and funerals, and other life celebrations of one kind or the other. On a recent Saturday, I was called to officiate at the wedding of a particularly nice couple, who were getting married...
by Jody | Human Condition
Handicapped children were a fact of life a half-century ago in the Midwest. We weren’t insensitive. We simply incorporated them into the general scheme of things. Life was tough. We were tougher. I had one friend for years who had hydrocephalus, or “water on the...
by Jody | Human Condition
About 25 ago, I received an envelope in the mailbox in front of my townhouse in Phoenix, Arizona. It was July, I think. I pulled the overstuffed envelope out and opened it up. Inside was a pair of hand knitted socks from my aunt in Danville, Indiana. They were...
