Quickening: Finding Those Living Moments
I’m always reading, always have a novel to settle down with at the end of the day, though my current
I’m always reading, always have a novel to settle down with at the end of the day, though my current
In past years, if I sat down to write novels about people connected to one another in various ways; if
BEING MORTAL And that is what Gawande emphasizes in this book: choice. The cases he relates are all about
When I was in grade school, I wrote a story about an avalanche. What did I know about that frightening
This post recalls an experience many of us have had. And lately, when I fly, I never get a window
Dear Readers: some of you have seen this piece, as it was posted last week…but most of you have NOT,
Snow White wasn’t loved by FAMILY TIES modern mother, Elise Keaton. No, Keaton stated Snow White was passive, just hanging around,
Maybe we instinctively know that our bodies are fragile. And from the beginning, we crave distance from the pain and
THE GRANDMOTHER HYPOTHESIS If you ask the evolutionary question: why do women continue to live after they are no longer
Do people write memoirs to hang on to the illusions of childhood? Oh so wonderful, that lost childhood! Despite my father’s
Two weeks ago I wrote about critters…deer, a woodchuck, others who invaded my yard when I lived in Iowa. So
My title is taken from a song celebrated in the musical OLIVER. In typical Broadway fashion, Oliver Twist and the
WHO LIVES HERE??? When we moved from Chicago to Des Moines, Iowa, we were excited about the deck on
You might have read Annie Dillard’s work: An American Childhood; Teaching a Stone to Talk. I admit that I haven’t
For my post this Easter Weekend, I am sharing sections of an opinion written by the late Michael Gerson, which
Erin Bartels never disappoints. Whether she is echoing her own life in, The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water, or