…Words Got favorite words? Please say you do. Words that taste good, you know? Of course I have a running list. (I’m not the only one, am I?) What follows, a sampling. Say them out loud. You’ll be glad you did… Alacrity Homage Squash Ennui Frivolity Gorgonzola (Warning: as a cheese, the taste is hideous, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Ten Things I Know to Be True
Today and the days earlier this week find me surrounded by great teachers who also write, and who take seriously, above all things, their profession and their craft. A little prompt led us each to consider what we know. Ten true things. Go. Ten Things I Know to Be True Writing proves, Words matter. Life … Continue reading
You Know What They Say…
Truth is, I don’t know what ‘they’ say — and furthermore, just who is this elusive, illustrious ‘they’ to whom so much brilliance is attributed? Really, who wouldn’t want the credit for these gems????????? If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em! If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen! When it rains, … Continue reading
Mists
It’s 2013!! I know, I know — it’s been this year for awhile now. I’m just feeling freshly amazed at the lightning-speed passage of time. Our eldests (there are 2 of them, after all) will be 27 in a bit over a month. The youngest sits at 23. They can hardly be called ‘kids’ anymore, … Continue reading
Roads Marked with Suffering
Originally posted on Velveted Paws:
Suffering comes in variable shape and size. Hunger, poverty, disease, and persecutions large & small fill the earth. In those ways, I suffer not. I am well-fed, rich by every world standard, healthy (plus or minus some troubling lack of cartilage in key joints), and, significantly, free. Given the ways of…
A Good Laugh
THIS JUST IN: WordPress just sent a little ‘happy anniversary’ message my way. It’s been one year to date that I created ‘commonchapters’ — and today, the blog gets far fewer reads than it did twelve months ago. It’s always good to know when something isn’t working, isn’t it??? Continue reading
“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look…”
Julius Caesar (as Shakespeare rendered him) wanted men about him who were ‘fat’ and ‘sleek-headed’ — those who slept at night. Cassius worries Caesar because “he thinks too much: Such men are dangerous.” Hmmmm… but that’s not all: Cassius “reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: … Continue reading
Seasonal Paradox
The four seasons — you know, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (I know some of you were thinking about the Jersey Boys, and some of you were hearing the strains of Vivaldi in your mind’s ear) — so conveniently and so obviously offer observational lessons about life and death that I am often amazed that artists … Continue reading
Going Without
Do you ever find yourself wordless? When you know you should break up, but lack even the sleaziness to utter, ‘it’s not you, it’s me’? When the IRS, the NSA and USGovt reveal themselves ethically bankrupt, and your shoulders shrug, your chest heaves, and you wonder, ‘what’s wrong with us?’ but tune your station to … Continue reading
Forgotten Pleasure: The Public Library
Thanks to amazon.com and Barnes and Noble, books in some abundance occupy this house. Only the more recent acquisitions are due to those mega-volume retailers, of course. Beloved university bookstores, rummage sales along the way, ‘book-of-the-month’ clubs, borrowed-and-never-returned favorites, a good many gifts and inherited collections (The Hardy Boys Mysteries among them) line the shelves … Continue reading
Common Chapters: life changes 