This is not how it should be. Not, at any rate, what I would have it. I am sick. So sick. On a weekend. It started at about 11 on Friday night, not long after the last of my 9th grade students left our house and our end-of-year party, the party during which 22 out […]
Read moreI am not good at the epistles. I am not. Those letters in the Bible there at the back of the New Testament– I am bad at these. They are long (some of them), they are not specifically addressed to me (though I realize that they are applicable to me and are therefore, by extension, […]
Read moreOh, Reader. Are you here at all? I’m not. Hardly ever, anyway. Not writing blog posts and scarcely reading them these days. I could offer up explanations and excuses, could go into what kind of writing I am doing these days or what I’m thinking about writing, anyway. I could tell you the story of […]
Read morefrom supper– a magnificent pork loin, straight out of Julia Child’s cookbook, and a salad of spinach and apples. from laundry– piles and piles and piles of it, clean and folded and waiting (still) for me to put away. from homework duty– though Everett had finished his and Emma Grace almost, but she would finish […]
Read moreO the dragons are gonna fly tonightThey’re circling low and inside tonightIt’s another round in the losing fightOut along the great divide tonight We are aging soldiers in an ancient warSeeking out some half remembered shoreWe drink our fill and still we thirst for moreAsking if there’s no heaven what is this hunger for? Our […]
Read moreI woke the boys with a song yesterday morning. The Morning Song, in fact. You know it, don’t you? Good morning to you!Good morning to you!We’re all in our places with sunshiny facesand this is the wayto start a good day. That’s it. That, and a plain, sing-songy kind of melody which can become Oh-So-Annoying […]
Read morefrom spiralling ecstatically this proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious nightblossoms a newborn babe:around him, eyes-gifted with every keener appetitethan mere unmiracle can quite appease-humbly in their imagined bodies kneel(over time space doom dream while floats the whole perhapsless mystery of paradise) mind without soul may blast some universeto might have been, and stop ten […]
Read moreI love saying “Merry Christmas.” I do. Call me unfeeling. Call me insensitive. Call me politically incorrect. Go ahead. It might be the “merry” part. We never say “merry” about anything else, have you noticed? It’s not “Merry Birthday” or “Merry Easter” or “Merry St. Patrick’s Day.” So offered this one opportunity to say “Merry” […]
Read moreThe four page (4 Page. Four. Page.) spread in today’s New York Times hails the upcoming Twilight New Moon film as “The Movie Event of the Year.” Hmmm. Don’t misunderstand me. I was taken with the movie Twilight. I didn’t see it in the theater, but Bill and the boys and I watched it this […]
Read moreDo you know it? The love for equals is a human thing– of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing– the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the […]
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