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PJ’s Page – From time to time this message will pop up on my cell phone:  “Re-establishing Lost Connection.”  Of course, what that means for my cell phone is that it is searching for and re-connecting to a WIFI network to which it has previously been connected.   At this time of year, after a summer of vacationing or summer break or just being home from school, we often…

PJ’s Page – In July Bruce and I will head to the Deep South for two weeks of visiting with family and friends.   I go with some misgivings this year, mostly around the knowledge that we will fly into a culture that continues to make space for racism.  When I lived there, I didn’t see it as much.  My eyes were clouded to it.  It happens in ways that are so familiar that it…

PJ’s Page – I’ve given much thought lately about  what it means to be at home.  For me, home is a place of comfort and peace, in ideal circumstances, which are not always what we have, but what we hope for. In my lifetime I have lived in 27 different homes, NOT including my college years!  Career and life circumstances have always meant that I was in a highly mobile…