On guns, swords, and playing war
My sister hemmed and hawed when she presented my husband with a cache of squirt guns for Father’s Day earlier this summer. We are, generally speaking, anti- “weapon and violent play” in our home,...
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In time and space
WXRT, Chicago’s Finest Rock, has been celebrating its 40th anniversary of bringing us awesome music for the better part of this year. As the year draws to a close, the schedule of events brings us “40...
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The Rising and Falling of Many
The Rising and Falling of Many Luke 2:22-40, Hebrews 2:14-18, and Cesar Vallejo’s “Masses” Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Rev. Bromleigh J. McCleneghan 3 February 2013 May the words of my mouth and the...
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Reading is my favorite and my best
From Arnold Lobel I hesitate to write these words, feeling superstitious, as if, by naming and announcing this miracle, I will cancel it, banish its reality. But, here it is: Fiona can read. My big...
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The land that never has been yet—
Americana I totally wept through the 4th of July parade that passed my sister’s house this morning. We all gathered there early, so we could park before the street closed, and get the lawn chairs out,...
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The Apple Tree Experiences Guilt
One of the critical and ongoing lessons of parenting — and, more generally, of living in the world — is that we are not our children, and they are not us. Other people have consciousnesses, and...
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The last weeks (month? months?) have been ridiculous in these here parts. Work is busy and exciting and fun and frustrating and hard. I have been attending to a lot of deaths lately, which, as you can...
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Six on Saturday: Car edition
This has been such a busy fall. This post, then, slowly muddles my way back into writing non-book-related-things. Do you see her? How big and independent she is? 1) I turned in what I hope will be...
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