by Dawn | Mar 27, 2016 | Parenting, religion
I told Declan the story of the Passover and Easter. Again. I do this every year. This year I tried a little bit harder. Declan usually demands candy when I say “Easter.” This year he upped his game. “Mom was Jesus a zombie?”...
by Dawn | Apr 8, 2015 | parenting, religion, Teaching
I told Declan the story of the Passover the other night. Too many people separate Judaism and Christianity. I imagine being a Jew in the time of Jesus–Romans, poverty, political turmoil. Being a Jew in the time of Jesus was sort of like being a colonist...
by Dawn | Apr 21, 2014 | family, food
The season of egg salad has arrived. Spring is a sacred time for all religions–a time of renewal–buds on the trees, plants poking through the ground. I was told by one of my farming mentors Wiccans advise planting parsley on Good Friday and say it’s...
by Dawn | Apr 13, 2014 | parenting, spirituality, Uncategorized, Zen
There are moments when a mother looks at her child and thinks, “I messed up here.” The subject of God is one of them. God has always been quite good to me. I grew up in a community where everyone truly lived out the meaning of that word. No person suffered...
