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17th Century Nun’s Prayer
Editor's note: Deb Malcom Lawrence, friend of The Perennial Gen, sent us this prayer penned by an anonymous nun in ...
When Your Kid Leaves for College: Saying goodbye with open hands
Before my eight-year-old daughter would leave for her dad’s house every other weekend, I would kiss the palm of her ...
Finding Her Here
Thanks to our friend Melinda Schmidt for sharing this beautiful poem by Jayne Relaford Brown with us. I am becoming ...
Breathe in. Breathe out.
By Jamie Janosz The last time I was told to focus on the end product rather than my present, all-consuming ...
Empty Nest, Empty Pockets
by Beth J. Drechsel One weekend we dropped our younger son off 400 miles from our house at his new ...
Books For Perennials: When Did Everybody Else Get So Old?
I started my forties looking too often into the mirror and getting tangled up in my thoughts - my goals, ...