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January 2018

January 11, 2018

Reynolds Price and Me: The Tale of Two Rhodes Scholars, Part 2

I found myself returning to the work of Reynolds Price in 2011, the year he...

November 2016

November 01, 2016

Poison Ivy and the Path of Grief

Though its fruit should’ve been in season, too many harsh Midwest winters left the leaves...

August 2016

August 16, 2016

The Neglected Garden, Part II

Continued from yesterday. The dollhouse my father was building for me was still unfinished when...

August 15, 2016

The Neglected Garden, Part I

When my father built the house where I was born, the land was flat and...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

The Long Regretful Wait

By Tony Woodlief My mother’s quavering voicemail was right: I hadn’t called in a long...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

The Wounds of Resurrection

As my husband prepared for an Easter sermon a few weeks ago, our dinnertime conversations...

March 2016

March 08, 2016

Thawing at the Edges

When the spring teases me one day, outplaying the winter dullness for just an afternoon,...

December 2015

December 03, 2015

Above Calcutta

By Laura Bramon The summer before you died, I hid on the roof in Tollygunge....

July 2014

July 31, 2014

The Destruction of a Man

This year 233,000 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, while almost the same...

July 08, 2014

Quitting the Cancer Battle

I am not a hero. After my last post, some readers wanted to know how...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

The Mercy of Sickness before Death

Just so you understand: I am dying. I am in the end stage of metastatic...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

Holy Water

"One must have faith and pray; the water will have no virtue without faith." –St....

September 2012

September 05, 2012

The Collapse of Western Civilization Begins in Your Dentist’s Chair

I have a toothache that’s getting worse, but I’m not going to a dentist because...

June 2012

June 13, 2012

What I’ve Been Given

Six dogs: Snoopy, Prince, Woody, Ramona, Leon, Bubby. All but Bubby now nothing more than...