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June 2, 2017
Charlotte Bowyer Writer “His Frozen Fingertips”
Arnoia, Spain, where the author edited her novel. On her website–charlottebowyerwriter.com—Charlotte Bowyer quotes Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Lin-Manuel Miranda, ‘And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, Cannot be killed or swept aside.’ Miranda read his sonnet, from which these lines are taken, as he accepted the first of [...]
May 28, 2017
Golf and the Movies “Tommy’s Honour” A Review by Ellen Bunton
Arthur Weaver, signed print of Royal and Ancient course at St. Andrews, 1961. Artist: Arthur Weaver Pictures/Getty Images. A Review by Ellen Bunton
May 9, 2017
A Sermon on John 11.1-45 “Lord, if you had been here”: Genevieve, Paris, and Attila the Hun
St. Genevieve (422-512) is the patron saint of Paris, France. The Rev. Genevieve Nelson has been the deacon at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Norfolk, Virginia, for a little over a year. In the best-known story about [...]
April 7, 2017
Two Smart Women Who Weren’t Smart Enough Not to Try Writing A Novel Together
A photograph of Alison with my cat, Isaac. One morning I received an email from my friend, Alison. Alison and I frequently exchange emails, which we both enjoy, so I opened this one with pleasure. In it, she recounted a dream she had the night before and concluded with [...]
March 20, 2017
Joseph Raffael “Moving Toward the Light” Words
Lanie Goodman Betsy Dillard Stroud David Pagel In a conversation with Lanie Goodman, Joseph Raffael described his way of working on the large paintings for which he is known: “I find a place . . . that interests me–it might be a color, or an expanse or a very complex area that may end up [...]
March 9, 2017
Joseph Raffael “Moving Toward the Light” Reflections
(Moving Toward the Light II watercolor on paper, 87 1/2″ x 49″ 2015) The description of Moving Toward the Light on Joseph Raffael’s website reads in part: “A major new book on the artist covering the past 17 years of his life and work in the South of France. Reproducing 88 works in rich [...]
February 18, 2017
Book Review~~Running With a Loud Voice: Rachael Steil “Running in Silence”
Rachael Rose Steil Portrait of a Writer Writing “Delicious food available at my fundraiser THIS Sunday!! Check out this oven roasted beef simmered with prunes, sweet potato, carrots and split yellow beans.
Book Review~~Do Wooden Flutes Sound Different? Penny Noyce’s New Novel, THE BEECHWOOD FLUTE
In her blog post of 5 February 2017–“Do Wooden Flutes Sound Different?”—Penny Noyce writes, “Three flutes, three sections to the book: that’s the organizing principle behind my young adult fantasy, THE BEECHWOOD FLUTE. Kiran, the flute boy who wants to become a warrior to avenge his father’s death, first plays a [...]
February 7, 2017
A Bishop, A Bottle, A Bicycle: Old News Remembered
There are situations and people and events that are never really out-of-date, never completely “old news,” because they touch us in some deep way that transcends time and place and particulars. There are situations that continue to move us because they are never fully settled, because the moral questions they raise have only ambiguous [...]
February 4, 2017
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty . . .”
Joseph Raffael (Haiku Fish, Color Lithograph) The lithograph, “Haiku Fish,” featured on this blog hangs now in my son’s home. It was a gift to me, many years ago, from the artist. It is Friday the 3rd of February 2017, just past 1:00, and I am home from some time with good friends, looking [...]
