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Citizen by Claudia Rankine – a brief, rambling book review

February 22, 2015

Citizen is a beautiful and heartbreaking and angry book on being black today in America.  I taught a portion of …

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On clouds and darkness

January 2, 2015

This morning I read a blog post by Brother James, of the Order of the Holy Cross, from their Grahamstown, …

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Monk Camp #2 – Into the Great Silence

August 5, 2014

The Great Silence – Contemplative Days: During my last week at Holy Cross monastery (click here to see my blog …

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Monk Camp

July 26, 2014

I’ve spent the last month at Holy Cross Monastery, an Episcopalian monastery on the Hudson River, a few miles north …

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On Laurie Colwin’s “The Lost Pilgrim” and my project to gender balance my reading list.

June 14, 2014

Every once in a while I read a book and think: “How have I never read this author?!” Laurie Colwin …

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On Camus: Notebooks 1935 – 1942

May 21, 2014

  I’ve been working my way through these Notebooks for the last few months.  I love reading writer’s journals and …

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On Alice Munro, reading, empathy and “Dance of the Happy Shades”

May 20, 2014

About a year ago, several months before Alice Munro so deservedly won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I set out …

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Ted Kooser’s Sure Signs

May 15, 2014

    I’ve long loved Ted Kooser’s poetry, but I think I somehow missed reading a full collection.  So I’ve …

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A book ramble: A Tale For The Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki

April 29, 2014

I have so much to say about A Tale For the Time Being, and yet nothing I can say.  This …

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Thoughts on Christian Anton Gerard’s: “Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella”

April 3, 2014

With full disclosure before I continue forward with this review, Christian Anton Gerard is a friend of mine. We went …

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