I stood in a hotel ballroom surrounded by many friends and acquaintances. There were some I knew well – and some whose faces were only vaguely familiar – but I felt so much solidarity with each person. We all shared a common purpose of going. We had counted the cost – and chosen to leaveContinue reading “The Call to Be Weird”
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When we aren’t enough
As this school year begins, my mind wandered back to another first school year more than half of a lifetime ago. It was my sophomore year in high school, and I had just transferred to a new school—an all-girls Catholic school where the only people I knew were a few neighbors who were more acquaintancesContinue reading “When we aren’t enough”
When did I grow up?
Note: This is adapted from a blog post I wrote several years back, but seems pertinent as I think about vocation in my new context. When I grow up I’m going to be a teacher. An astronaut. A baseball player. The list goes on of the words that I heard as a child growing up.Continue reading “When did I grow up?”
Anna Hubbard 