Due to my discomfort in houses of worship, I initially refused Funmi’s invitations to join him for a service at Plymouth Church. However, one particular weekend we were both having a difficult time due to our collective poor health and, not wanting to break the spell of healing our conversations had cast, decided to comeContinue reading “Church Mouse”
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Goodbye
On Easter Sunday 2020, my mom and I drove the near empty roads of Long Island past the signs warning us to “Stay Home, Save Lives.” It was just us and the trucks heading 65 MPH over the George Washington bridge. The surreal vista of a world in shutdown matched the empty feeling of dreadContinue reading “Goodbye”