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Quaker Camp: Mothers and Daughters Talk (#2)
Sarah (mother) I was not raised Quaker. It was my children’s spiritual education through Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s summer camping programs…
Raising Quaker Youth
It would seem that writing about raising Quaker youth would be an easy undertaking, especially as my husband Rick and…
1967 Friends World Conference: A Youthful Recollection
My sister Jane and I bumped our suitcases down the stairs from our bedrooms on the second floor and headed…
On Being a Grandmother
Everyone said just wait—being a grandmother is the most wonderful thing in the world. I thought to myself: yeah, yeah…whatever!…
A Sacred Walk: Parenting as a Way to God
Nothing has taught me more about the constancy of God’s presence and continuing creation than being a parent. From the…
Circle Time
I loved it when we would sit down to have Circle Time. First we would light the candles so we…
Children, War, Play, Violence (and Barbies)
When I started out on the adventure of parenting, I assumed that I was too smart and enlightened to have…
Thinking about Faithfulness
In 1986 I was a mother of young children, struggling, with my husband, to make ends meet on his salary…
Could Any Friend Really Understand what It Feels Like for a Quaker Mom to have a Child who Is a Soldier?
Though I grew up and then served as pastor in a different denomination, I’ve been a lifelong pacifist, culminating in…
The Wandering Leadings of the Spirit
A great swoop over my head, and a steady beat of wings. Suddenly a dark shape banks, turns, and disappears…
Moses and the Tantrum
If everything worked perfectly, we would be only five minutes late, I told myself as I hurried my two-year-old daughter…
The Civil War Swords
They came to us, my husband and me, in 1977, after my mother-in-law died. Long ago she had laid them…
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