A grain of salt
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist When my granny died, I was half a world away in India. I had seen her just days before at her home in Oregon, where she pressed a copy...
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A grain of salt: The small things that keep us sane
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist The world may well be ending, and if assessments of common science are plausible, we’re headed along an expected trajectory where the only real debatable matter seems to be...
A Grain of Salt: The shame game
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist Okay world, that’s enough. I’m not quite certain where it began — though I suspect there are some strong roots in the Old Testament — but this culture of...
A grain of salt
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist I have decided that living with trauma is kind of like having emotional fibromyalgia. Some days, everything hurts and all the inexplicable tender parts feel raw and confused. The...
A Grain of Salt: Our love measured in six feet
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist I was heading to a friend’s house to go for a run – one of the few socially sanctioned outings we can still cling to without guilt. “Okay,” she...
A grain of salt: The detrimental danger of goal setting
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist There’s a sort of pass/fail culture happening in, well, pretty much everything we do these days. We set lofty intentions and label them as “goals,” then determine that anything...
A grain of salt: Seasonal affect for the resistant
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist When the sadness hits, I know it. It’s different from other kinds of sadness; it’s a kind of tender response to the humdrum of everyday life, when suddenly I...
A grain of salt: The happiness project
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist Every year, without fail, the new year arrives. With it’s slow, unstoppable force, like blackberry overgrowth, it creeps over us with suffocating thorny truths and optimistic expectations of fruit....
A grain of salt: Gifting yourself down-time
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist It’s that time of year again. We’re obliged to parties and gatherings and second helpings. We’ve got relatives to relate to, colleagues to Secret Santa with and everything tastes...
A grain of salt: Illness is not a weakness
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist Somehow, perhaps with the transition into the Industrial Revolution and hourly wages, Americans seem to have lost compassion for the unwell. Working hard for long hours each day and...
