by Kim | Jan 24, 2026 | Cross Currents
January 18, 2025 For eleven years, she was ours — the family dog.But for about the last eight of those years, her heart belonged to me. Shiva.Our beautiful yellow Labrador retriever. As our kids grew older and busier with their own lives, she and I began spending more...
by Kim | Dec 31, 2025 | Cross Currents
O Christmas Tree! I was singing along to an English translation of “O Tannenbaum” the other day when the second line stopped me: O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,how faithful are your branches… What does that even mean, really? Branches can’t really...
by Kim | Dec 3, 2025 | Cross Currents, Media Spins
In the TRUE Spirit of the Season This December, I’m doing something different. Instead of blasting Christmas carols from Thanksgiving onward—or, let’s be honest, from Halloween when Costco and half the stores decided Christmas had “arrived”—I’m choosing to actually...
by Kim | Dec 2, 2025 | Cross Currents
Last night before bed I caught a BBC News announcement: Oxford University Press had picked their 2025 “Words of the Year.” Rage Bait. Aura Farming. Biohack. Here’s what they mean: Rage Bait — stuff online meant to make you mad or outraged so you click, comment, and...
by Kim | Nov 26, 2025 | Cross Currents
Do You See the Writing on the Wall? Two things are equally infuriating: 1. When something bad happens and people tell you, “You should have seen the writing on the wall!” 2. When you actually did see it—and did nothing to act on the warning. Today’s reading from...
by Kim | Nov 18, 2025 | Cross Currents
(Reflection on 2 Maccabees 6:18-31) Resist What is Fake We usually think of “make believe” as child’s play — imagining ourselves into a world of dress-up and pretend. But today’s readings show a different kind of “make believe”: living our faith in a way that is true,...
