Personal Stories

  • Life
    Maybe I went too far mixing V8 and Pop Rocks, but life isn’t always sweet.
    Meg Barnhouse
  • Spirit
    There is a cricket playing the violin in my bathroom.
    Elizabeth Lerner Maclay
  • Spirit
    People probably thought my parents were hippies because we were out-of-the-closet Unitarian Universalists.
    Laura Pedersen
  • Spirit

    Volunteering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—and the aftermath of my diagnosis with ALS—has helped me appreciate the complexity of asking for, and offering, help.

    Mary J Harrington
  • Spirit
    The most important thing Samboon taught me was how to speak from my deepest and most grounded place.
    Rain T. Van Den Berg
  • Life

    Parenthood makes life serious and challenges you to push past limitations you have accepted too easily. But those issues don’t go away when you decide not to have children.

    Doug Muder
  • Life
    The Karma Fairy is laughing her head off at the SUV in my driveway.
    Meg Barnhouse
  • Spirit
    I worshiped the gods of comedy and tragedy long before I worshiped Jesus’s God, and I have never stopped leaving gifts at the altar of Dionysus.
    Victoria Weinstein

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