Renée Zenaida

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Gratitude, Prayer and a Czech Republic Honeymoon

With all the monumental crises that pack the news these days, have you ever noticed that it’s the little things that get to us. And you never know what “little thing” is going to set someone off. (more

Motherhood in the 21st Century
Happy Mother’s Day. Holidays always give me pause, perhaps this one more than most. As a childless woman whose own mother has passed on…(more

You Can’t See the Wind

That’s a given in the way “we” experience the world. Who are “we”? We are the majority, all experiencing life in different but similar ways. (more)

Standing Up and Sitting Down: Civil Rights Heroes

My father...my father was not a Civil Rights Hero. Don't get me wrong, he did a lot of heroic things in my eyes. A union electrician in Chicago, he'd pull wires in sub-zero temperatures until the skin on his hands cracked and bled. (more)

Good Grief: Walking through the Shadow of the Valley
My family was not religious. We kids were raised Roman Catholic, my father's faith. The only religious notion my mother ever passed onto me was bagpipes. (more)