Month: March 2024

Necessary Interruptions When it first happened, I thought something was horribly wrong. I was a sophomore in high school, and, having just won the cross country state championships, was beginning to train for my first 10-mile race. Though I’d been running for a few years at that point and had always been a perfectionist about … [Read more…]

My first memory of church is a pattern. At three or four or five years old, I would stare at the checkered sea-green cushioning on the pews until each my eyes crossed and each square blurred together. It was a good distraction, and, after all, I needed all the distractions I could get. I had … [Read more…]