Sometimes, like this week’s solar eclipse, it feels like all the light has suddenly gone out. Activities you once enjoyed or places you once found solace, may feel dim and cold. The world has a way of peeling away your skin, so that reaching for some bright new beginning seems achingly, blisteringly impossible. Where to […]

In the dusky Oregon evenings of my childhood, after penning the sheep and goats and chickens, my mom often gathered my brother, Sunny, and me beside her on our gray Salvation Army couch to read aloud “The Chronicles of Narnia.” In C.S. Lewis’ classic fantasy, four children stumble through a wardrobe into another world where […]