Category: Personal Essays
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Cherishing Every Stage: What a Painting Taught Me About Fatherhood
A painting that traces a girl’s life through a progression of shoes prompted Michael D. Young to reflect on a long-awaited daughter and the…
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Creating Sing We Now of Christmas During a Difficult Season
Michael D. Young reflects on completing Sing We Now of Christmas during unemployment and illness, and what the project taught him about hope and…
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Learning from 9/11: Heroes, Grief, and Hope
Michael D. Young reflects on September 11, singing in The Tabernacle Choir’s tenth-anniversary special, and lessons about courage, grief, evil, and hope.
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Portrait of a Mother: Writing a Mother’s Day Story Across Stereotypes
Michael D. Young reflects on writing the Mother’s Day story Portrait of a Mother, crossing gender stereotypes, and creating tenderness without sentimentality.
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Welcoming Bryson: A Family Milestone from 2010
A family record of learning that Bryson was coming, announcing the pregnancy with a Big Brother shirt, his November 2010 birth, and the loving…
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