by Ingrid Lochamire | Nov 14, 2016 | Wisdom
Just 140 characters and two minutes. That’s all it takes to spout an opinion or start a movement. In a flurry of emotional rhetoric, we have the freedom to proclaim to the world (or whoever’s watching) a point of view we may later realize was uninformed,...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s always an awkward conversation. After we’ve played some games, talked about what they want in a dating relationship, done a bit of role-playing, we get down to the nitty gritty. Sexual assault. Violence. Rape. Some of the students avert their eyes....
by Ingrid Lochamire | Sep 24, 2016 | Faith, Good Books
Cindee Snider Re embodies these words from the author J.R.R. Tolkein: Courage is found in unlikely places I met Cindee in an unlikely place — at a writers’ workshop on the western coast of Lake Michigan. We were among a dozen writers, many of whom were...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Sep 19, 2016 | Good Books
” ‘Look at you! So happy! You like fishing, no?’ I laugh and nod. Yes, this makes me happy, but I am here for more than this, of course. I have not tried to explain to him the fuller reason I am here, my own search. I do not tell him that I cannot...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Aug 13, 2016 | Faith, Family
I did a double-take. Five grown men in long brown robes with bald heads, beards blowing in the breeze, were jogging barefoot down the sidewalk. I slowed my car and caught their happy faces in my rear-view mirror. This was not a sight I was used to seeing in the middle...
