Alice J. Luther
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A storyteller, creative, poet and freelancer in pseudonym stringing words together to make sense of the world
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Driving Slow Coming Home
I followed him home down ice-slicked roads, the flash and grind of oncoming snowplows making the Minnesota roads seem all-too-narrow. The trees hung heavy with last night's snowfall, and some of us were taking care. I didn't mean to follow him home, but that was beside the point.
By Alice J. Luther 4 years ago in Families
My People
Several years ago, as I sat in the nosebleed section of an old church in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, I didn’t even bother to wipe away tears. Brené Brown, the well-known research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, spoke from her heart about courage and vulnerability, loneliness and doing hard things. She admonished about the ‘sorted-ness’ of our culture, about the destruction caused by dehumanization, and the power of speaking honestly with kindness, regardless of the outcome. Her words were powerful. And she got me thinking about My People.
By Alice J. Luther 4 years ago in Motivation
Warnings. Top Story - May 2022.
I close my eyes and scrub my hands over my face. It’s the second “well-meant-warning” post I’ve seen in the last two hours: someone has written another article/interview/parenting critique to parents everywhere on the danger children are perpetually in. The title is something like, His Daughter Is Abducted Right Under His Nose, and it’s a set-up scenario with real people and fake “abductors” filming the events. Some poor Dad, (who took his kid to the park and pulled his phone out of his pocket to text his wife back and say Yes, he will get milk on the way home, is pictured as the ‘negligent parent,’ while two filmmakers ‘abduct’ his little girl and send my blood pressure through the roof.
By Alice J. Luther 4 years ago in Families
