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August 2015

August 26, 2015

Satisfaction Guaranteed: Maybe Jesus is Calling

Today I might walk perilously up close to the line of offending everybody. And me...

August 07, 2015

7 not very quick takes

One Elphine is super mad because she didn't wake up at six in the morning....

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Reasonable Expectations

It's pretty ridiculous that I am writing a devotional book, given my fairly deep hatred...

July 23, 2015

Anne and her Binghamton Garden

I trust you all have read Elizabeth and her German Garden and understand the aptness...

July 16, 2015

Books, Sin, and the Mountain I Can’t Climb

We had a really good time away. We payed our usual homage to the Alamo....

July 15, 2015

Home Again Home Again

A hearty good morning to you all. Here we are back in Bing, piled high...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Of Writing a Book

The time has come, the walrus said, to just stop fussing around and just write...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

A dollar a book

The sky is gray. The teapot is chipped. !? Not by me was it chipped....

May 11, 2015

Yet Another Devotional

So, I'm writing a book. For weeks and months I've been thinking I ought to...

March 2015

March 13, 2015

Some Takes or Something

OneElphine has decided we're definitly going ice skating one more time, wretched girl. She's been...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

7QT: Autumn

One The app by which I daily blog has developed some evil something such that...

October 08, 2014

The Center Stair

It might be the result of age and wisdom, cough, but lately I've been frustrated...

October 03, 2014

Seven Quickish Takes

OneI'm not emotionally organized enough to be a person who takes blogging breaks "on purpose"....

September 2014

September 10, 2014

Barbara Pym on Various Topics

Been threatening a post about Barabara Pym for some time and as I have nothing...

March 2014

March 13, 2014

Bearing Bravely Up My Chin

One of my Lenten "thoughts", I won't say spiritual discipline because I don't know that...

March 08, 2014

Of Making Many Books there is no End Because Everybody Wants to be Famous

Cleaned out the books in Matt's office yesterday. Stacks and stacks of books that came...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

something I meant to mention a lot earlier

My very long time friend and her sister happened to write and illustrate a lovely...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

Alouicious has discovered Calvin and Hobbes. He keeps coming and showing me the gross snowmen...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

children’s books with an edge

Tired of the soupy sweet repetitiveness of Children's Books? Longing for something with a little...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

a veritable hotbed

Been rereading Screwtape. Found this to be really delightful.I think I warned you before that...

January 2012

January 25, 2012

a book has been read

Congratulate me!I finished an actual book. Four years ago while I was in labor with...

June 2011

June 18, 2011

A Foretaste of our Busy Weekend

In the present instance, going back to the liver-pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyond...

June 01, 2011

Oh to be like other people

So I've been reading the first three pages of Charles Williams' Descent into Hell over...

March 2011

March 16, 2011

reading and typing with one hand…

As a palliative to the horror of having to read Treasure Island (never before has...

October 2010

October 20, 2010

a small failing

So I finally read The Hobbit. I know, I'm late to the party. And I didn't...