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August 27, 2011

If We Are Alive, Let Us Go About Our Business

“Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let...

August 26, 2011

Thoreau's Legacy

Thoreau died virtually unknown to the larger world, but in the years since then his...

August 25, 2011

On Walden Pond

Thoreau was 27 years old when he built his hut on the shore of Walden...

August 24, 2011

Concord's Self-Appointed Inspector of Snowstorms and Rainstorms

Let’s suppose you take a time-machine trip back to 1840s Concord to meet some of...

August 23, 2011

The Dark Muse of the Puritan Soul

I live in Iowa City, Iowa, home to the famed Iowa Writers Workshop, the nation’s...

August 22, 2011

A Tomboy for the Ages

I mentioned last week that Louisa May Alcott seems like an old friend, particularly in...

August 18, 2011

Introducing the Alcotts

Today, we turn to my friend, Jo March. Oh, I know there’s a difference between...

August 17, 2011

A Few Words From Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yesterday I was a bit too snooty in relation to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work, for...

August 16, 2011

Concord, Then and Now

Concord was a small town during the time of the Transcendentalists, and it’s still a...

August 15, 2011

The Transcendentalist Trail

There are times, I must confess, when I realize just how incredibly geeky I am....

July 2011

July 11, 2011

Six Million Leaves, Without Budging An Inch

Wikipedia Commons imageMy husband and I have been tree shopping lately, for a pine in...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

The Leap of Faith

I don't normally post the occasional sermons I give at my home church, but today...

December 2010

December 17, 2010

The Holy Art of Being Lost

I know what you’re probably thinking: how could the U.S. get its first official Marian...

December 17, 2010

The Holy Art of Being Lost

I know what you’re probably thinking: how could the U.S. get its first official Marian...