Saint Hewett

I had a whole different post in mind yesterday after some really good conversations with students this week, but then this morning I had the privilege of rea...

Today's post comes to you in disjointed stories as I stitch together the lessons I'm learning and the lies I'm rooting out of my life. Please bear with me in...

Praise the Lord, I have documentation from my insurance advocate that they will cover reimbursement and ongoing payments for my catheters under this current ...

It's overcast and rainy here in Kandern; it has been for several days. The forecast predicts more weather like this and a thunderstorm soon. I wrote a youth ...

Last night as I was trying to fall asleep, I had a great idea for a blog post. Then I, by the grace of God, managed to fall asleep and stay asleep most of th...

I cut my hair off on Monday. Like, a lot of it. I chopped nearly a foot off in a braid, and my housemate took clippers to the rest. After skyping an alumni w...

Shannon and I were talking this week about how I've had access to Disney + for weeks now but have yet to watch High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. ...

If you go through my archive, you'll find more than one reference to the Superchic[k] song "Alright." It showed up in one of my annual playlists as well (bec...

Years ago several of my students were struggling with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. They found solace making a joke about suicide based on a vid...

Listening to this podcast is a better use of your time than my blog; come back here for commentary on this episode: https://bibleproject.com/podcast/taking-g...

Dr. Schaak used to always tell our literature classes at Multnomah, "The goal of literature is empathy." I told my students that in our last gathering all to...

My TA was getting some addresses for me this week and writing them on envelopes I hoped to have sent out months ago. Yesterday, I also spent a good amount of...

This past Thursday morning, I was chatting with someone about how she has a lot of questions about Job - and I admitted I have a lot of questions too. I've b...

I don't post absolutely everything on the internet, but the euphemistic pain I was describing in last week's post only got worse through this past week. I'm ...

"How are you today?" one of my AP seniors asked when he came into the room Wednesday. "Honestly, not great," I told him since I'd already confessed to a diff...

I am, as the kids say these days, salty - but for other reasons than you'd think. This morning's sermon included discussion of the salt and light metaphors J...

For those of you praying along with me for miracles these forty days, please read aloud this Psalm with my name and ask God to reveal new feeling and functio...

For those of you praying along with me for miracles these forty days, please read aloud this Psalm with my name and ask God to reveal new feeling and functio...

For those of you praying along with me for miracles these forty days, please read aloud this Psalm with my name and ask God to reveal new feeling and functio...

For those of you praying along with me for miracles these forty days, please read aloud this Psalm with my name and ask God to reveal new feeling and functio...