Another Pilgrim’s Progress
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Remembering Sharon Leslie Morgan
January 30, 1951 – February 24, 2026 My beloved friend and Gather at the Table co-author, Sharon Leslie Morgan, has joined the ancestors. I was not expecting this. We talk regularly. We last spoke on her birthday just three weeks ago. She had survived breast cancer,...
The Last Chairlift
John Irving has been one of my go-to authors, and inspirations for my own writing, for more than four decades. I've loved all his books that I've read. There are several I have not read. I'm saving them. I don't want to run out of John Irving books to read before I...
The Past is Present
I graduated from Western Christian High School exactly 50 years ago this month. One of my closest friends in high school was Phil Smith. Our senior pics are on the right, scanned from our yearbook. After graduating, I headed to Oregon to attend Northwest Christian...
It’s a Wonderful Life: Pilgrimage to the real Bedford Falls
“It’s a Wonderful Life isn’t the way life is, it’s the way life should be.” – Frank Capra I’ve thought a lot, and read a lot, about “pilgrimage” over the past few years. I embarked on a huge pilgrimage in late 2019 when I walked 550 miles across Spain on the Camino de...
Robin DiAngelo talking White Fragility in my town, with security guards
(Note: this post first appeared at Beacon Broadside) I looked forward to Dr. Robin DiAngelo coming to the town where I live, Bend, Oregon, since her appearance was announced a few months ago by The Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program of Central Oregon Community...