Writing the good read
While out doing errands today, I was listening to A Prairie Home Companion on KUOW, my local NPR station, when Garrison Keillor launched into his news from Lake Wobegon. He was talking about how people will like things despite common sense — like the love of the desert southwest in the summer even though you…
I understand that people of some faiths have problems with issues like marriage equality and abortion. I understand that those people may have the strongest belief that their faith is the one true faith, and that people who are gay are going against God’s law, that people who have abortions are killing a human being….
Full disclosure: I haven’t yet read What Do Women Want, this week’s book. However, I have read articles, excerpts, reviews, and listened to interviews with the author, Daniel Bergner. It’s on my nightstand awaiting its turn. But all that exposure to it has got me thinking. Naturally, my thinking demanded an audience. The book looks…
In my 49 years, I have gained some wisdom. Some, like don’t touch fire, came easily, if painfully. Others, such as daring the universe to laugh at you by speaking aloud the Always and Nevers of your belief system, I have learned only slowly and with much pain. For example, about 12 years ago, I…
I have no designs on public office, and given my strange history, I’m sure some political consultant would say that’s probably for the best. But if I was going to run for office, I would make the following promises: 1. I will never let the practice of my religion impinge on your freedom to practice…
So there was this Seth Godin blog being shared around Facebook today about the things that Most People don’t do. It made me think about Them. They are everywhere, aren’t They? And if Most People don’t care, well, neither do They. They are against everything you stand for, right? And They are different and stupid…
I need to come back to the issue of fair. I struggle almost daily with the fact that I can’t see “fair” in the world, that there isn’t an evident balancing out of good and evil. I want to see the people who do wrong brought to justice and those who do right rewarded. But…
A short post today because it has been one of those busy days where my list of things to do has gotten longer, not shorter. On days when I seem to go backwards and feel unproductive, I remember that I have a standard definition of success I fall back on: as long as I floss,…
Almost exactly six years ago, I stood on the bima at our synagogue and at the age of 40, was called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah. A little late, but I got there. My Torah portion was the Song of the Sea of Reeds when Miriam and the women sing with joy as…
I have to admit that when I read today’s NAIEW Words Matter Blog Challenge topic, I had to go to may quote book and look for one. I don’t usually remember quotes, except from movies, a few books, and things my mother repeated over and over in my childhood. So I looked under some of…