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Can I braid your hair?” was a question I often heard at school or birthday parties as a child. I had long, silky, straight hair that friends wanted to touch and older girls would curl and crimp as we played beauty parlor. In middle school my friend Sarah teased that she used to hate seeing…
J A N U A R Y / / 2 O 2 3 Happy (very) Belated New Year! I started working on this post in mid-January, feeling stoked about the Year of the Rabbit. The water rabbit is my mom’s sign; she is a sensitive and tentative yet strong lady. But most things were pushed…
The traditional meaning of Advent encompasses the days leading up to December 25th, the day of Jesus’ birth. Advent calendars began with simple candle lighting in German households and the act of counting the days spread to other communities and countries. Today both Christian and secular families are familiar with Advent. In the United States,…