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“Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Eye of the Tiger

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So much of who we are is revealed in casual ways. During a vacation, I saw a row of cards on display in a person's home. Most of the...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

The Man in the High Castle: Spoiler blog: feminist and peace series

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The Man in the High Castle , based loosely on Phillip K Dick's novel of an alternate history in which the Axis wins World War II and occ...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Man in the High Castle: Extraordinary, feminist peace series

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I had been despairing about popular media's complicity in the rise of an ultra-violent society now headed by misogynist authoritarian wh...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Wendell Berry: Solace

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As I move from numbed to grieved, this poem offers solace. The photos show the nature around my home: "Leavings"   by Wende...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Election tomorrow

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Tomorrow is election day in the most stunning Presidential election in living memory and perhaps in the history of our country. The news of ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Le Carre: A Quaker writer? Bodies and violence

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A friend mentioned John le Carre seeming to her to function as a woman's writer. I have been thinking about this while watching the mini...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Quakers and literature, Game of Thrones and Virginia Woolf

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Sadly, the recent shooting in Orlando makes an appropriate backdrop for my topic: the debut of new book on Quaker literature and the questio...
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