Please see the new page (link here) for a haiku a day. Toward the end of 2020, during the Christian season of Advent, my sister Deb and I determined to write a haiku each day until Christmas. We shared those with each other along the way, in the process sharing a fragment of a moment …
It’s official! A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible hits shelves both virtual and real, February 2021. I’m happy to say that even ahead of publicaion, it’s received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and some nice remarks (calling it “insightful and instructive”) from the Library Journal. Published by Oxford University Press, …
“The writer isn’t made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses,” E. L. Doctorow observed. How? Why? And what about this whole crazy business, the idiosyncratic process, angst and euphoria of writing in the first place? These are are some of the wide-ranging things that author Meredith Cole and I explore with special guests on The …
The Bible. It’s weird. Let’s talk. If you happen to be in Charlottesville, VA and free for (a free) lunch and talk on September 19 (Tues), c’mon by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (conference room)! I look forward to discussing my work for The Misunderstood Bible (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) with those able to …
You’re Invited! The Misunderstood Bible Project: A Talk Read More »
People ask what the Women’s March on Washington was for, anyway, as if not rallying around a single discrete issue is mere silliness. To them, I say: if only there were a single, simple, self-contained issue. Gosh, wouldn’t that be great? Here’s the thing. When trouble advances, women are pretty much always on the front …
Hang on, you there, packing up the Christmas lights, dismantling the tree, boxing up the crèche with its cast of characters and that long-tailed star. Christmas is not over. Sure, come December 26th, it may have been all over for the “Little Drummer Boy,” Bing Crosby, and the Nutcracker; but not quite for Christmas. The …
Epiphany’s Choice and the Environment: In Reverence to Honor, or in Fear to Destroy Read More »
Shaken. Oh, and stirred. Whomever you voted for on November 8, this election has left a lot of us shaken and stirred up, to boot. How plan the day when the president-elect snubs the Constitution, a delightful friend has invited me for coffee and pie, religious do-gooders chisel away women’s rights, and a mere twenty …
Daily Dilemma Plus Beef Bone Broth and Barley Soups Read More »
If heaven there is, it is surely with dogs. With Lady and Mukluk and Blizzard and Blue. Beauregard, Suvi, Sir Winston and Trieve. Loki and Merry, Hector, Shiloh, and Trout. There’s Cody and Norman, Tuk, all the Roberts, too. Sweet William, now join them. Godspeed on your way. Muzzle to palm, miss you. Miss you. …
For now, the swish and swish is all there is. The wooden handle of a rake with its metal-tined delta is all that I, who have come soul-tired, need. That, modest strength in my shoulders, and the blue tarp onto which I toss leaves with a swing that despite everything can’t but be joyous. It’s …
Number One: There’s just so much else! Between ferreting out and correcting lies, determining the relevance of sexual impropriety and serial bankruptcy, judging emails the nefarious contents of which still elude the best sleuths, the American Way vis-à-vis immigration, and ISIS oh ISIS,… who can talk about anything so multi-faceted and complex as the environment? …
Five Reasons It’s So Daggone Hard to Talk about Environmental Issues in This Election Read More »
