Citizen by Claudia Rankine – a brief, rambling book review
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
This morning I read a blog post by Brother James, of the Order of the Holy Cross, from their Grahamstown, …
Monk Camp #2 – Into the Great Silence
The Great Silence – Contemplative Days: During my last week at Holy Cross monastery (click here to see my blog …
Monk Camp
I’ve spent the last month at Holy Cross Monastery, an Episcopalian monastery on the Hudson River, a few miles north …
On Laurie Colwin’s “The Lost Pilgrim” and my project to gender balance my reading list.
Every once in a while I read a book and think: “How have I never read this author?!” Laurie Colwin …
On Camus: Notebooks 1935 – 1942
I’ve been working my way through these Notebooks for the last few months. I love reading writer’s journals and …
On Alice Munro, reading, empathy and “Dance of the Happy Shades”
About a year ago, several months before Alice Munro so deservedly won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I set out …
Ted Kooser’s Sure Signs
I’ve long loved Ted Kooser’s poetry, but I think I somehow missed reading a full collection. So I’ve …
A book ramble: A Tale For The Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki
I have so much to say about A Tale For the Time Being, and yet nothing I can say. This …
Thoughts on Christian Anton Gerard’s: “Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella”
With full disclosure before I continue forward with this review, Christian Anton Gerard is a friend of mine. We went …
