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Kristy Wacek

April 16, 2019

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Drawing From a Dry Well

Silence. Solitude. Rest. Renewal. These words have begun to feel almost as foreign to me as the lists of new vocabulary I review every week as part of my ongoing language learning. Without knowing it, I seem to have left these things behind when we made our move into...

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Kristy Wacek

April 9, 2019

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Compelled

It was two o’clock in the afternoon. As I sat sipping my Irish cream latte, I noticed the African and Middle-Eastern men gathering in front of the café. It is a daily ritual: the men gather outside no matter what the weather, drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and slap each...

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Kristy Wacek

April 2, 2019

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An Optimistic Yankee in a Gloomy Court

Mela is a Christian psychologist in Poland, where I live.She recently led a workshop about depression and at the end admitted, “If we judged by the descriptors in American books on the subject, we would say that most Poles are depressed most of the time.” Boy, have I noticed!...

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Kristy Wacek

March 26, 2019

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If Only

I love parties. In fact, I regularly throw parties for myself. Pity parties, that is. As everyone knows, you do not necessarily need to have a reason to have a party. Sometimes I have reasons. Sometimes not. Sometimes they are good reasons. Sometimes not. Sometimes my reason has to...