A sweet winter song for you on Valentine’s Day–from my heart to yours. [Thank you, Clara from Senegal.] May you find spring in your winter. May you find love all around. Here’s “Winter Song” by Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson.
Creative Genius
Have you heard of the TED Conferences? The following is taken from their website, as way of introduction: “TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world’s […]
Despair in The Sparrow
I’ve just finished The Sparrow, and I’m a little unnerved by it, to say the least. The despair is so tangible, so grossly real, that I myself have all the same questions the hopeless Emilio expresses in the end. And because I don’t want to ruin the awful ending for any of you who decide […]
Marriage
Dan and I will have been married 18 years in June, and I’m sure Dan would agree with me, as I with him, that we are not the same two people who exchanged wedding vows on that warm summer evening in 1991. The importance of that statement (not being the same people) cannot be explained […]
Second Reading
Good morning, good morning, dear readers. Today is my second Eve reading, and it’s here in Rochester. It promises to be a sunshiny day, in the mid-20s or so–a perfect excuse to bundle up the little ones and come on down to the Apache Mall Barnes & Noble. I’m being told that if the crowds […]