For some of you, this post will be blasphemy, so read no further. For others of you, it might be laughable. But for right now, if you can suspend judgment for a few moments, you might crack open your mind just slightly, to allow your thinking neurons to fire in different ways. [Remember, doubt is […]
Should Eve Have Been Steve?
So. It’s sometime in September of last year, and my husband Dan is reading Eve for the first time while we’re in the Ukraine. Every once in a while, he glances up from reading and makes a statement or asks a question, and I grab my notebook and jot them down. Some of the questions […]
Blaming God for Suffering
I suppose when you read Eve, if you choose to read Eve, then you might understand that the question of suffering is one I take seriously, because it is the one thing that seems unfathomable with a loving God. It’s not a new question. There are voluminous books written on the subject–in every century. Why […]
The National Museum of Art & Ukrainian Food, Part 2
We return to the National Museum of Art to browse the top floor. We’ve saved it, knowing that we won’t get an adoption appointment today. We enter the most fabulous rooms of paintings by Georgiy Melikhov (1908-1985). In 1947, he won the Stalin prize, which speaks volumes. Back then, of course, any artist who didn’t […]