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The theme and refrain of all the meetings I sit in as we plan for the next four years and beyond is that we have to be hyper local.

December 9, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! I’m not sure about you, but last week was busy. Several big projects seem to come together at...

December 2, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! This being the fourth year of Monday Moments during Advent, I’m sure I’ve mentioned this...

November 25, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! For my mom Thanksgiving has always been the most important holiday. Family without the...

November 18, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! For most of us who were raised in the church and have heard and read the Gospels more than a...

November 11, 2024 Friends, I’m not ready to declare any day “happy” yet. It’s only been six days since at least 73.5 million people in...

November 4, 2024 - #mondaymoment #vote #election #elections Happy Monday, my friends! This is the first in a series of Monday Moments I’m...

October 28, 2024 #mondaymoment #christiannationalism #racism #whitesupremacy #fear Happy Monday, friends! At this point I think we can...

October 21, 2024 - #mondaymoment Happy Monday, my friends! Often in discussions about LGBTQIA+ rights people will ask if a particular...

October 14, 2024 Happy Monday, friends! Have you seen the PSAs and news reels from the 1950s and 1960s that instructed American school...

October 7, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! If you need a lesson in love or a reminder of how much you love someone, take a five-year-old...

September 30, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! I sat down to write this Monday Moment in a really bad mood. I was sitting in my mom’s...

September 23, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! Recently, Nicolle Wallace, a host and political analyst for MSNBC, referred to the jab of...

September 16, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! Hope is one of those emotions and immaterial realities which tend to bubble to the surface...

September 9, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! Last week I was scrolling through TV shows and movies in the LGBTQIA+ section of one of the...

September 2, 2024 Happy Monday and Happy Labor Day, my friends! While most of us welcome today as a day off work or perhaps mourn it as...

August 26, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! It’s that time of year again…back to school! By now most schools at all levels in Ohio have...

August 5, 2024 Happy Monday, friends! I had a rough week, but in the midst of being sick, processing and responding to the HB68 ruling,...

August 5, 2024 Happy Monday, my friends! If you’ve been following along on social media, you know that I decided to cancel my trip last...

July 29, 2024 - #mondaymoment #dogs #cats #pets Happy Monday, my friends! If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you know that last...