Earthseed, a review
Goodreads had a Facebook post a week or so ago asking readers to “describe the book you’re currently reading in one word.” I’m generally too verbose to succeed with such restrictions, [...]
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Oct, 2020
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Aug, 2020
Ordination
It was pointed out to me in recent years that the Catholic Church has seven sacraments for men but only six for women. I already knew that, but I had [...]
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Aug, 2020
Beach Reads Without the Beach
Last night I finished reading Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene. Things being what they are in the world, I’ve been having a bit of trouble focusing on anything [...]
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Jul, 2020
Fall On Your Knees, a book review
Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald is a larger than life story, a convoluted tale of family secrets and lies. At least three times in the novel the action [...]
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Jun, 2020
How Madelaine Survives Quarantine
Written with my Thursday night writing group (now meeting on Zoom!) with the prompts: one red shoe and oh, dear. Madelaine wore one red shoe and one green shoe because [...]
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Jun, 2020
The Story of My Hydrangea Bush
I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was dipping into Sleeping on the Wing by Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell, an anthology of poetry and writing prompts written for [...]
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Jun, 2020
Black Lives Matter
This has been a very upsetting couple of weeks, but if you’re paying attention you already know that. Because of the continuing pandemic, I choose to be mostly homebound, writing, [...]
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May, 2020
Continued Sheltering, part three
Greetings! If you’re a regular reader, you know the past two weeks I’ve suggested some prayers that I’ve found helpful, and I continue to encourage everyone to write prayers and [...]
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May, 2020
The Dutch House, a review
The Amazon tagline describes this novel by Ann Patchett as the story of a family that goes from poverty to riches to poverty and back to riches again. Well, yeah, [...]
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Mar, 2020
Sheltering-in-Place
When I was 21 I went to Europe on a five-week student tour with my best friends. On our last day we were in England, and we went on a [...]