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August 2012

August 30, 2012

Sondheim Symposium [Sequence Index]

In the summer of 2012, I threw the best birthday party ever when I bribed...

August 29, 2012

Teaching Fish the Word for Water

In the last Sondheim Symposium post, I talked about Giorgio struggling with Fosca's implacable love....

August 28, 2012

“Nobody human can stand all that everlasting affection!”

The quote is from Company, the subject is Passion, as the Sondheim Symposium goes on. This installment...

August 27, 2012

“Careful the wish you make, wishes come true. Not free”

Yesterday, in my review of inSignificant, I started teasing the next thread of the Sondheim Symposium....

August 26, 2012

Weakness as Strength

I received a free copy of inSignificant: Why You Matter in the Surprising Way God...

August 23, 2012

“What do you wanna [stay single] for?”

I'm delighted to say that Christian H of The Thinking Grounds has sent in a...

August 20, 2012

“It’s not so hard to be married. I’ve done it three or four times.”

Inspired by the Sondheim Symposium, my college friend Katharine Pitt offered a guest post based...

August 18, 2012

“Bobby, you’ve been looking peculiar”

After the song above, Amy can't decide whether to go through with her wedding, and...

August 14, 2012

Ending with a clinch, not a child [Sondheim]

This post is part of a symposium on Stephen Sondheim's Company. I really enjoyed Gilbert's...

August 13, 2012

“Maybe we just weren’t meant to have children” [Sondheim]

I want to kick off the Sondheim Symposium this week with a guest post by...