Faith Gong
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Faith Gong: A nearsighted holiday
As I am writing this there are nine days left until Christmas, and we still don’t have a Christmas tree.
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Faith Gong: Holiday film review: ‘Disenchanted’
About partway through I realized that it wasn’t just a film. That’s when I leaned over and whispered to my husband, “This is the perfect metaphor for perimenopause!”
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Faith Gong: Of toddlers and teens
Three-year-olds and teenagers, as it turns out, aren’t all that different.
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Faith Gong: The November of middle age
Now, my experience of middle age may not be universal, but in my experience middle age is when your heart breaks and stays broken.
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Faith Gong: The dog days of autumn
This morning, my 11-year-old daughter said, “I don’t know why, but I’m not really feeling excited about anything right now,” and I thought to myself: Me, too.
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Faith Gong: Story of my life
Perhaps because I’m a writer and a lover of literature, it’s been helpful for me to view life in terms of story.
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Faith Gong: We all fall down
“Mommy, what do two lines mean?” my nine-year-old daughter called across the kitchen. And just like that, the Bad Thing entered our house
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Faith Gong: Lessons from a paddleboard
It’s an obvious metaphor, but it’s true: Where you look is where you’ll go.
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Faith Gong: Goodbye Summer, Welcome Fall!
I need to come clean: Although I’ve written on this topic in a variety of ways before, I’ve always beat around the bush, obscured my true feelings, tried…
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Faith Gong: Surf City … with kids
I am typing this from a desk in our Airbnb rental house in Huntington Beach, California: a beige stucco bungalow in a residential neighborhood of tightly packed stucco…
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Faith Gong: The wedding of my decade
At the end of July, I attended a friend’s wedding in Indianapolis. Sounds simple, right? Friends, if anything was ever simple, these days nothing is simple.
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Faith Gong: On the End of the World (With a Book Recommendation)
We may not be able to stop the end of the world, but I don’t believe for a minute that we can’t make the world a better place…
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Faith Gong: On change and summer
Just like that, time moves on. The leaves cover up the evidence of a pandemic that shook our world for over two years; a dump truck carries away…
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Faith Gong: The birds… and the bees
It wasn’t the first time a bird had become stuck in our woodstove; this had happened twice before.
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Faith Gong: My kids, in the middle of the lake
On two hot days Faith and family loaded up two vehicles with assorted children, grandparents, a deflated kayak and paddleboard, and a portable pump, and headed out to…
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Faith Gong: The family that bikes together
Our family’s pandemic coping strategies have failed to follow national – or even logical – trends. We were already living in Vermont, homeschooling, gardening, and keeping chickens when…