Stubbornness and grace
“Margaret, I didn’t know you were a runner.” “Oh, I’m not, not really” I said this the day after running my 19th half-marathon, and immediately sensed how ridiculous I sounded. […]
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The End of Summer
Today would be a beautiful day if it weren’t the end of summer. Labor Day is here, which most of New England uses to mark the end of the warm,
What I’m into, August 2016
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty… you didn’t think I would cruise into September without quoting Hopkins, did you? The days are getting shorter and the evenings cooler, and
What I’m into, May/June 2015
It’s summer! Which means time for reading and playing outside. First, books: Gilead: A Novel I had heard Marilynne Robinson’s praises sung by my literary-minded friends for years and finally