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September 2011

September 14, 2011
Before I visited Salem, I had a vague idea of what had happened there in...
September 13, 2011
When last we met here at The Holy Rover, Emerson, Thoreau, and the rest of...

August 2011

August 29, 2011
We end our Holy Rover tour of Concord (finally!) at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the resting...
August 28, 2011
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the...
August 27, 2011
“Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let...
August 26, 2011
Thoreau died virtually unknown to the larger world, but in the years since then his...
August 25, 2011
Thoreau was 27 years old when he built his hut on the shore of Walden...
August 24, 2011
Let’s suppose you take a time-machine trip back to 1840s Concord to meet some of...
August 23, 2011
I live in Iowa City, Iowa, home to the famed Iowa Writers Workshop, the nation’s...
August 22, 2011
I mentioned last week that Louisa May Alcott seems like an old friend, particularly in...
August 19, 2011
Spending time with Bronson Alcott yesterday made me realize that before moving forward we need...
August 18, 2011
Today, we turn to my friend, Jo March. Oh, I know there’s a difference between...
August 17, 2011
Yesterday I was a bit too snooty in relation to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work, for...
August 16, 2011
Concord was a small town during the time of the Transcendentalists, and it’s still a...
August 15, 2011
There are times, I must confess, when I realize just how incredibly geeky I am....
August 06, 2011
Today's post is my monthly column for the Episcopal News Service, reprinted below: My home...

July 2011

July 29, 2011
Before leaving Deer Park Buddhist Center behind (see yesterday’s post), I want to tell you...
July 28, 2011
One of the great joys of seeking out holy sites is the serendipity of the...
July 20, 2011
(My July column for the Episcopal News Service is based on a post I wrote last...
July 18, 2011
The new Harry Potter movie is grabbing the headlines (as well it should), but there’s...
July 12, 2011
Each summer, one of my great pleasures is my husband’s garden, which fills our postage-stamp-sized...
July 11, 2011
Wikipedia Commons imageMy husband and I have been tree shopping lately, for a pine in...
July 08, 2011
In honor of what I hope is a lazy midsummer weekend for you, a metaphysical...

June 2011

June 27, 2011
I don't normally post the occasional sermons I give at my home church, but today...
June 08, 2011
Yesterday I wrote about a holy site I wasn’t able to visit. Today I want...
June 07, 2011
Today’s post may seem a little odd, for I’m going to tell you about a...

May 2011

May 20, 2011
I don’t often write about restaurants on The Holy Rover (in fact, have I ever...
May 12, 2011
You may recognize part of today's post, which grew out of some ruminations I wrote...
May 03, 2011
Like many of you, I'm sure, I greeted the news of Osama Bin Laden's death with...

April 2011

April 29, 2011
  Today’s post is also my monthly column for the Episcopal News Service. You can...
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