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 […]
Cain and Abel
Dan and I saw this massive painting–the kind you have to stand yards away from to take it all in–at the Musée d’Orsay in 2007. I had finished Eve by that time, so I was interested in the cavemen-like representation of the characters, more along the lines of what you would expect the first people […]
Fundamentalism
Dictionary.com defines fundamentalism as many things, but here’s the one I’m referring to in today’s post: “a strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles.” This is not necessarily a bad thing, in my opinion, if you don’t foist any of those responsibilities or expectations on anyone else. I think I’ve discussed this […]
Niels Lyhne
When my sister Amy visited recently, she asked if I might request Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen from the public library, so she could read in the evenings; the book was virtually impossible to get from the Denver libraries. So, I did, having never heard of the author, Jens Peter Jacobsen. Amy’s stay was […]