One year ago today, I started this blog. Happy anniversary to me! This is my 83rd post, which averages to about one every 4.5 days. Not bad at all.
My very first post was a memoir I wrote about a year and a half ago–an exploration on beauty–or the lack thereof–in my life. Interestingly [...]
Archive for October, 2009
31 Oct
Beauty and Truth, part 3
23 Oct
“I think the asking is whether we get back up again.”
“Maybe our story will turn out differently if we take the left fork, maybe the bad things that are waiting to happen to us won’t happen, maybe there’s happiness at the end of the left fork and warm places with the people who love us and no Noise but no silence neither and there’s plenty [...]
16 Oct
“Only weeks before the guns all came and rained on everyone”
“I lie in bed at night after ending my prayers with the words ["Thank you, God, for all that is good and dear and beautiful"] and I’m filled with joy. I think of going into hiding, my health and my whole being as [good]; Peter’s love (which is still so new and fragile and which [...]
8 Oct
Happy October!
Things I love about this month:
1. Pumpkin everything–candles burning in my room, bagels and cream cheese at Einstein’s, the literal pumpkin that Michele bought yesterday (we’re going to carve it, as I’ve never carved a pumpkin before).
2. Coffee! “Perfectly Pumpkin” to make in our Keurig at home and Einstein’s new chestnutty “Autumn Roast.” Yum!
3. Cooler [...]
1 Oct
September Books
Ten in September…that brings my total to 85!
1. That Summer, Sarah Dessen. A re-read, but a good one.
2. The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963, Christopher Paul Curtis. This was the first book for my adolescent literature class, and it was quite remarkable. The story is mostly about a family living in Flint, Michigan. The Watsons have [...]
