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“Dolly Parton and Miss Piggy Hanging Out Will Make Your Day Better”
April 4, 2013 By
From “Moby-Dick”
April 4, 2013 By
The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick? –quoted in Jane Langton’s Dark Nantucket Noon, which I just finished. It’s a purplish murder mystery in which almost all of the twists are easily guessable; but it’s still affecting, [...]
The Twelve Steps and/as/vs. Religion
April 2, 2013 By
There is no way I will regret writing this post! Anyway, Helen Rittelmeyer has a provocative piece called “The Language of Addiction Takes Over,” which makes a bunch of great points despite an underlying framework I think may be wrong. Some of the great points: “The religious novel is in eclipse, but the recovery memoir [...]
What I Learned from Being a Christmas-and-Easter Jew
April 2, 2013 By
‘Tis the season. I went to my first Easter morning Mass ever this year, and holy cats, was it packed! Yikes. Just wall-to-wall Catholics in all phases of forward- and backsliding. It got me thinking about what I learned from being intermittently Jewish as a kid–taken to High Holy Days services a few times, once? [...]
“You think you hold the high hand; I’ve got my doubts”
March 31, 2013 By
Sublime skating for Easter
March 31, 2013 By
Kitchen adventures: Pumpkinification
March 31, 2013 By
For some reason Whole Foods was selling lots of heavily marked-down Thanksgiving food last week. I grabbed a can of pumpkin for a dollar and proceeded to use it in black bean chili (not the first time I’ve had good results using a sweeter ingredient in my chili) and in delicious curry pumpkin pancakes, made [...]
This is how it’s supposed to be.
March 31, 2013 By
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