The Closer
It was my sixth grade teacher, Miss Kathleen Tivnan, who taught me about the four chambers of the heart and the functions of arteries and...
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- Oct 21, 2017
- 3 min
Bodies at Rest and in Motion
Three years ago, vacationing in Rome, I was mesmerized at the Piazza Navona. It wasn’t simply the masterful marble—the Fountain of the...
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- Oct 6, 2017
- 3 min
Boy Scout? Or Faithful Little Woman.
“Every Camp Fire Girl must understand that the secret of her life, whether for joy or for sorrow, lies in herself. If she wishes success...
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- Sep 28, 2017
- 2 min
Yom Kippur, A Solemn Fast for a Sweeter World
This year Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and one of the two highest holy days in the Jewish calendar, begins on the day that I will...
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- Sep 18, 2017
- 7 min
Tag. You're It!
I am writing this on a Saturday night, midway through the tag sale that I hope will culminate on Sunday in a mad rush with people buying...
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- Sep 2, 2017
- 5 min
Nix on the Nashville Statement
“For those who want to save their life will lose it…..” These are notorious words of Jesus from Matthew’s gospel. They have, for...
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- Aug 29, 2017
- 2 min
Going to Meet the Man
James Baldwin's short story, "Going to Meet the Man" may be the one story we need to read in these times. Masterfully, but agonizingly...
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- Aug 14, 2017
- 7 min
Charlottesville. Sermon, 8.13.17.
Let me begin by saying that, on Monday afternoon, when I read the lessons for this Sunday morning, I was excited. Once in a very, very...
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- Jul 27, 2017
- 3 min
Skin in the Game: Eyes Without a Face
There is a pun here somewhere: I can’t seem to figure out how to wrap my mind around the movie “Eyes Without a Face.” A classic 1960...
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- Jul 13, 2017
- 3 min
Pilgrim in Dogtown
Smack dab in the center of Cape Ann--Massachusetts’ “other cape”--is Dogtown Commons, over 3000 acres of storied wilderness full of...
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- Jun 15, 2017
- 4 min
Awash in Puddles
The rain is raining all around. It falls on field and tree. It rains on the umbrellas here And on the ships at sea. --Robert Louis...
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- Jun 2, 2017
- 4 min
Enchantment, Evil--and Innocent Children
I am always both haunted and horrified by Schubert's setting of the Goethe poem, "Die Erlkonig." If you don't know it, it's more than...
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- Apr 13, 2017
- 3 min
You Can Dance if You Want To
This is a posting about dancing. But first: In Nautilus magazine, journalist Daniel Gross writes about a “silent disco” party at South...
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- Mar 18, 2017
- 3 min
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me
Okay, so this morning I was filling in at a colleague's church and it was time for the Children's Time/Sermon/Moment--it's called...
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- Feb 9, 2017
- 3 min
Testosterone and Memoir
By some strange coincidence, I find myself reading three very different memoirs by three very different white men. I’ve just finished...
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- Jan 26, 2017
- 3 min
Kitchen Aid
Watch carefully because I’m about accomplish this fancy, journalistic sleight of hand in which I start this post in a curmudgeonly vein...
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- Jan 12, 2017
- 4 min
About Suffering They Were Never Wrong, the Old Masters
In Greek mythology, Daedalus was the great craftsman, capable creating anything—which would make him a good web designer! He is credited...
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- Oct 21, 2016
- 3 min
"In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See"
I’ve always been drawn to the poet Theodore Roethke’s line, “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” It’s the first line of an eponymous...
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- Sep 14, 2016
- 3 min
Love's Labors Not Lost
Labor Day picnic, three years ago: by the time we got to the lime sugar cookies and the last of the strawberry-basil cocktails at the end...
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- Aug 18, 2016
- 3 min
Give Us Pleasure in the Flowers Today
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the...