• Nature Study

    Bagged

    / 21 July, 2013

    See who was in our garden today, enjoying the shade under the beans and tomatoes. Thus my older daughter found yet another use for her butterfly net: We let the little guy go…

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  • Blogging

    On writing

    / 20 July, 2013

    It’s been pretty quiet around here lately. What a change from my early days of blogging back in 2007. Back then, I wrote about everything. Ideas were always crowding in, asking to be…

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  • Bible

    Diaspora

    / 8 July, 2013

    I’ve been musing over some things I read in the notes to my chronological Bible recently. They seemed to me to suggest a compelling parallel between post-exilic Jews and modern American Christians. In…

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  • Novels

    Olive Kitteridge

    / 6 July, 2013

    I’ve not finished this book, and I think I’m going to set it aside. So this isn’t a book review proper — yet I find that I want to write about my experience…

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