President Trump
Posted: November 7, 2024 by Tamara Puffer
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Another presidential election has come and gone. I voted early and I waited in line for 45 minutes to an hour to cast my ballot. There was a lot of interest in this election because it was a presidential election – Kamala Harris against Donald Trump. I voted for Harris but more people voted for […]
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A Tale of Two Cities
Posted: November 4, 2024 by Tamara Puffer
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It’s been a little over a month since Western North Carolina experienced Hurricane Helene. I know I posted a couple of pictures of the devastation in my last blog post, but I wanted to post one more. This picture is a recent one. Asheville is going to feel the aftereffects of this hurricane for years […]
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Hurricane Helene
Posted: October 16, 2024 by Tamara Puffer
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I heard about a hurricane that might affect Asheville, but I didn’t think much about it. We took down our patio umbrella and our hanging pots because we heard there would be strong winds, and we made sure everything was secured. It began raining on September 26th and our basement began flooding. Michael’s woodworking workshop […]
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Two for the Price of One
Posted: July 25, 2024 by Tamara Puffer
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I went to a small writing group today. I’m not going to say where it was, who was in it or who led it to protect people’s privacy. I’ve known about the group for a long time and have been interested so I finally got the courage to attend. There was lots of banter before […]
Read more...Minister of Vulnerability
Posted: June 1, 2024 by Tamara Puffer
In my book, Forgetting the Former Things: Brain Injury’s Invitation to Vulnerability and Faith (2019), I tell a story about getting ready for the Institute for Theology and Disability in 2017 which took place in Los Angeles, California. I had a million things to do. I got a haircut. I went to the grocery store […]
Read more...Word Dump
Posted: January 20, 2024 by Tamara Puffer
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Prior to 2020, Websters dictionary defined racism as the superiority of one race over another. In 2020, Kennedy Mitchum a student who had just graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, didn’t think the definition went far enough. She wrote to the editors: “Racism is not only prejudice against a certain race due to […]
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