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TMI: When does news become gossip?

Found the following at The Oregonian’s site tonight: Bob Caldwell, editor of The Oregonian’s editorial pages, was in the Tigard apartment of a 23-year-old woman when he went into cardiac arrest...

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Praying for Prescott

  My daughter spent a couple of summers on a firefighting crew. I’ll be honest, it terrified me. The forests on these mountains surrounding us are dense. I’ve seen how one lightening strike can set a...

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It’s My Birthday

  It’s my birthday. The very first in my life without the woman who birthed me. I’d post one of those photos here. You know the kind with the mother kneeling beside her daughter or son, as they blow...

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Beneath a Rising Jesus

  Weeping may last for the night, but a shout of joy comes in the morning. (Psalm 30:5) It was Saturday and we were in church. A big city church sat back on one of Portland’s wooded corners. Imago Dei....

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Dead Boy’s Devoted Daddy

Editor’s Note:  I will no longer be blogging at Patheos. This is my permanent site. Please make note. And, thank you for sticking with me all these years. KarenZach.com has been my home for many years...

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Death without a Funeral

  This was going to be the blog post in which I announced that daughter Konnie and her husband are expecting wee ones. I had it all written in my mind. I was going to share with you how long a...

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When Women Gather Part II

    My phone rang at 1 a.m.  this morning – August 10th, 2014. I grabbed for it quick, thinking even through dark slumber: This cannot be a good thing.  Why do we always think that when the phone rings...

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Death with Dignity Branding

  Death with Dignity. Such lyrical, poetic branding. I live in Oregon, home to the Death with Dignity laws, allowing terminally ill people the right to die when they want. To be clear this is not...

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Itty Bits of Almost Nothing

  Kentucky women aren’t supposed to be barren. It goes against every stereotype, every myth ever propagated. Sylvie Garcia reasoned she had to be some kind of genetic throwback to not be able to get...

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It’s My Party

Today is my 59th birthday. I can hardly fathom it. I feel like I’ve finally mastered some game that has granted me access to a warp zone where everything goes faster, where the Novembers seem to bump...

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Earl’s Stupid Human Tricks

    Sitting in the courtroom, listening to Earl’s momma lie through her pearly white teeth, Morgan wished upon her momma’s grave that she had not thrown out that book. She wished she’d read it...

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Everyday is a Jubilee for Each of Us

  I was packing up my bags when the phone call came. It was somewhere around 7 a.m. but I’d been up an hour already. “Karen, looks like there might be a Jubilee going on.” “Oh, wow!” I said. “Really?”...

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Remembering That Which You Cannot Forget

Editor’s Note: This is a repost from Christmas 2012 originally titled Getting Mama Ready.   In 1966, when we got word of my father’s death, it was my brother’s crying that frightened me most. The way...

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Our Brother Terry McGregor

DaNang, Vietnam with Sons & Daughters in Touch. Every now and then there are people we meet who change the trajectory of our lives in the most unexpected but eternally astounding ways. Terry...

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Good People Rise Up

    If you read the headlines, you might come away with a warped view of the world. Michael Moore is screaming that Trump is going to get us all killed. Trump himself threatens nuclear war with North...

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Death without a Funeral

  This was going to be the blog post in which I announced that daughter Konnie and her husband are expecting wee ones. I had it all written in my mind. I was going to share with you how long a...

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When Women Gather Part II

    My phone rang at 1 a.m.  this morning – August 10th, 2014. I grabbed for it quick, thinking even through dark slumber: This cannot be a good thing.  Why do we always think that when the phone rings...

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Death with Dignity Branding

  Death with Dignity. Such lyrical, poetic branding. I live in Oregon, home to the Death with Dignity laws, allowing terminally ill people the right to die when they want. To be clear this is not...

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Itty Bits of Almost Nothing

  Kentucky women aren’t supposed to be barren. It goes against every stereotype, every myth ever propagated. Sylvie Garcia reasoned she had to be some kind of genetic throwback to not be able to get...

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It’s My Party

Today is my 59th birthday. I can hardly fathom it. I feel like I’ve finally mastered some game that has granted me access to a warp zone where everything goes faster, where the Novembers seem to bump...

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