Life by Faith
By Jim Hinch

March 2010

School of Love
March 25, 2010
Parenthood is the great leveler. This being New York where I live, Frances’ preschool enrolls kids from all sorts of backgrounds. At a parents’ meeting last night I was surrounded by people in finance, law and who knows what other high-profile jobs.
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Story Time
March 11, 2010
My daughter Frances loves stories. She can’t get enough of them. Brushing teeth, dressing, out on walks, on the subway, putting on pajamas, going to bed—she wants to hear a story.

I’m losing track of my own cast of characters. Once, maybe a year ago, I tried telling Frances a bedtime story. It was about Kelly, my old dog when I was a child. I think in that story Kelly might have climbed a tree to rescue an injured bird. I’m not sure. I can’t remember.
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Go East, Young Man
March 4, 2010
Kate and the kids and I flew to Seattle last week on vacation. Flights west always trace the same emotional arc for me. Endless green (white in winter) of the East and Midwest suddenly give way to mountains (Rockies), blond desert, mountains again (Sierras, Cascades). My heart gradually lightens and opens. I’m back West. I’m home.
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Jim Hinch is a senior editor at Guideposts. He lives with his wife, Kate, and their two children, Frances and Benjamin, in New York City. Reach him at jhinch@guideposts.org.