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The Day Grows Brighter

What's Saving My Life? A Hodgepodge

I'm Getting Back into Show Business

In Praise of the Sewer Rat

From the Archives: Having "The Talk" about Santa

Living the Book

Five Things: Love, Ethan Hawke, and the End of the World

Rest, Persevere, Rest

Shift Happens: What Exactly Are You Growing?

Shift Happens: Put On Your Thinking Hat

Shift Happens: On Gravity and Anchors

Five Things from Ghost Ranch

Expect Some Turbulence

Take It Easy

There's a place for everyone in The Blue Room

Sabbatical Was Not "Restorative"

Coming soon

3-2-1: Hopemongers' Edition

Ukraine, The Lord of the Rings, and the Good Worth Fighting For

Mosaic Lessons

Baby Steps, Wise Grief, and Bits of Beauty

Hope Notes: A Preview of Hope: A User's Manual, MaryAnn's Next Book!

Hope Notes: Art and Music for the End of the World

Hard Makes It Great. But Also...

3-2-1: Sabbatical, Recommendations, and Kindness

Hope Notes: Wall-E, Earth Day, and Irrational Love

A Quote for Easter People

Don't Tell a Runner "You're Almost There"

Hope Notes: tick, tick...BOOM!, and How to Live Like We’re Running Out of Time

Introducing… the Manuals Series!

Lord of the Rings, Ukraine, and the Good Worth Fighting For

Hope Notes: Lord of the Rings, Ukraine, and the Good Worth Fighting For

Disaster? Hug It Out.

When in Doubt, Be Like Phoebe.

Hope Notes: Free Guy, Two Years of Covid, and Playing the Right Game

It's a Book... and an Important Cause.

An Alternative to Doomscrolling: Ten for Tuesday

Hope Notes: Black Panther, Part 2

5 Lessons from that 5-Letter Word Game

Looking for New Beauty

Hope Notes: Black Panther, Part 1

New Reads and a Reread: What's On My Bookshelf

It's a Podcast! Blue Room, Ears Edition

Hope Notes: The Long Winter

The First Sunset

What the Numbers Don't Show