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Surrogate Parents

When hanging out with friends, I’ve started to wonder (surreptitiously)  if they’d be good part-time surrogate parents.  You start thinking these things as you project into the future, imagining your child as a future teenager who may not want to confide in you.  You hope that, at that time, you’ll be able to encourage her […]

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It’s Really All About God

“I signed up for a movement that was standing still, with explorers who had already arrived, and for a revolution that had given up.” So says Samir Selmanovic in his book It’s Really All About God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian.  The worst part: he’s talking about Christianity. Here’s a book after my […]

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How Does a Building Spread Jesus’s Message of Love?

This past weekend was life-changing for me.  I attended an Artist Development Project workshop, underwritten by the Minnesota State Arts Board, in partnership with Springboard for the Arts and Creative Capital (a NY-based foundation that supports artists).  Since I’m still compiling the information I learned, I’m saving it all as a post for tomorrow.  You’d […]

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What 10 Books Have Influenced How You Look At the World?

We have winners for the two up-for-grab issues of Books & Culture, May/June 2010 issue! Renae and Lindsey.  Congratulations, you two!  If you’ll e-mail me at comment4elissa at gmail dot com and provide me with your addresses, I shall send them straightaway.  Happiest of reading to you. John Wilson, my editor at Books & Culture, […]

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Extraordinary Women

The Time Magazine list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World is always fascinating, because for every person listed, you know there are thousands of unknown others who are also humbly changing the world. To my delight, under the Heroes section, Ang Lee (the Taiwanese-born director of Brokeback Mountain) applauds a Taiwanese woman, […]

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