2010-08-24 13:10
Come on over and visit me at my new blog, a woman again."I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write." ~ Virginia WoolfMy… Read More
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2010-06-10 13:41
This summer we're going on a six week road trip to New York (a week at Chautauqua with Julie's family to celebrate her folks' 50th wedding anniversary!), Wisconsin (Bob and Bobbie at the lak… Read More
2010-06-08 18:44
You may have noticed that I haven't been blogging much. No? Well, anyway, I haven't been blogging much. When I started this blog, I was mostly looking for a place to publish my essay Y… Read More
2010-06-05 03:00
Patrick Lacey and I are pretty sure we are twins separated at birth. I can't tell you how dear this man is to me. So even though I didn't know his beloved brother James, my heart… Read More
2010-05-31 04:18
Robin Black, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This (2010) [*****] In the interests of full disclosure, I should probably tell you right up front that I pretty much think Robin Black hung the… Read More
2010-04-27 13:53
edited to add: I've already gotten good feedback/pushback from a friend at church, challenging me on this notion that we are all immigrants. That's what I'm looking for! He… Read More
2010-04-23 17:07
It’s not too late: Call Gov. Brewer NOW & ask her to veto SB1070. English: 866-996-5161- Espanol: 866-967-6018* * *It occurs to me that if I were me, the same old Marta – eve… Read More
2010-04-07 16:58
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried (1990)[*****]. This seems to be the phase of my life when I read a lot of great books I should have read a long time ago. I've know… Read More
2010-04-07 00:33
Mary Karr, Lit (2009) [*****]. I know I should read Mary Karr's first two memoirs, The Liar's Club and Cherry, as she has been credited with practically singe… Read More
2010-02-19 15:18
"Hello squishy belly." Micah wraps his arms around my hips, buries his face in my tummy. "I love you, squishy belly.""What if I started running all the time and got really skinny… Read More
2010-02-14 11:55
The second in an occasional series; the first: Sister Margaret (or: the first time I walked away from poverty)***The snow has been relentless. I missed the first wave, having bee… Read More
2010-02-11 08:37
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (1925)[*****] I've never before read any fiction by Virginia Woolf, though I read and loved A Room of One's Own as a teenager, and I read about VW man… Read More
2010-02-10 12:48
Reflections on a Benign Dictatorship:A Music Director’s Sonnet of ThanksgivingI’ve been music dictator 13 years—How lucky am I to have all of you?To sing and play and do th… Read More
2010-02-07 13:52
what's this passion for?always: buzz, hum, soar, roar, divethen buried in snow Read More
2010-01-29 00:58
edited to add: So whaddya think? I think I like it.I'm being impulsive and fiddling with the layout. I'm also supposed to be cooking supper. And I'm a total luddite… Read More
2010-01-28 18:36
edited to add: more on Apple's new "intimate" product (apparently Steve Jobs actually used that word yesterday, with a straight face....)But it just keeps getting better and better. &n&hell…Read More
2010-01-27 19:06
While I spent last summer and fall reveling in my own marriage (see part one and part two of my on-going series, "A Midwestern Marriage"), I pretty much had my head in the sand with regard t… Read More
2010-01-22 04:34
When I was in college, it took me almost three years to hold onto the concept of “hegemony,” which now seems silly, because it’s not really a difficult concept. And it was… Read More
2010-01-21 01:08
Folks ask me for recipes a lot, so I'm going to start posting some of them. If you don't love food .... well, poor you. Because good food? Good food is on a short short list of life's grea… Read More
2010-01-20 13:39
I was in a grumpy mood this morning (just ask my family), but this snapped me right out of it. Patrick is one of my boyz and I do love him. He doesn't know it yet, but I'm scheming a trip… Read More
2010-01-20 01:42
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver (2009) (*****). Taking a page out of Gordon’s book, I gave this to Julie so that I could read it. I justlove Barbara Kingsolver’s stories. This… Read More
2010-01-11 23:49
NOTE: This sermon was delivered by the Rev Dr Donna Schaper, Senior Minister at Judson Memorial Church, on Sunday, January 10, 2010. Like Old First Reformed UCC, Judson Memorial is an Open… Read More
2010-01-07 11:41
edited to add: photo by Tom MartinezYesterday Michael Caine, pastor of Old First Reformed UCC, was arrested at a rally for Jean Montrevil, the Haitian father of four American-born children… Read More
2010-01-07 04:26
The first time I ever fasted, I was a freshman at Earlham College. I was taking a course called Intro to Philosophy: Food Ethics, a course that changed my life in many good ways. My study… Read More
2010-01-06 01:59
Upon a hill, wind-swept and bitter cold, in milky light of bleak mid-winter’s sun, we buried Auntie in the frozen wold, in sure and certain hope, Thy will be done. Small fingers tw… Read More
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