I’m still a schoolgirl when it comes to summer’s end. I dread the fall. Pumpkins and football games make me anxious. Give me hot, humid weather, a little body odor, and a good book every time. Speaking of good books, there’s still a few weeks to enjoy summer reading. On a friend’s recommendation, I’ve […]
MoreBooks in the bathroom are as essential as toilet paper. But not to be used for the same purpose, except in cases of emergency. And then only if the book is already full of what it will be full of if used for such purposes. For one (back to reading books, not wiping with […]
MoreI gave up writing rhymed poetry a long time ago. In grade school I composed limericks about other people at recess (not an avenue to popularity, believe me); in college I once wrote a truly awful sonnet that included the word “manacle,” and to my everlasting shame, I entered it in a poetry contest. […]
MoreThe other night I made a discovery at the library. It was the most excited I’d been at the library since I got a $25 fine waived by a sympathetic clerk who had no knowledge of my shameful history of overdue books. My heart was pumping happily along as the discovery unfolded before me, until […]
MoreJust wanted to share a collage my daughter made using a picture she had taken for her photography class and a paraphrase of a favorite passage of mine. The paraphrase is taken from Life of the Beloved, by Henri J. M. Nouwen, a Catholic priest who died in 1996. Nouwen wrote the book following a […]
MoreSpotlight on another gift today, one that my mother gave me a few months ago, a gift that was unconnected to any celebration. How wonderful is that! To my list of what kind of gifts are best, add the following: a gift given for no reason other than the giver thought the recipient would really […]
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