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Monday, April 17, 2023
Calm Before the Storm
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From the tornado into the hurricane, they tell me. Like going from Kansan Oz to Katrina, or Maria. Hurry up and wait for it. I miss just fro...
Friday, April 7, 2023
Justice and Peace
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I find that there is a strange recognition attached to anything related to the year of one's birth. So, to take an example at random, w...
Friday, December 23, 2022
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bird that Steals Shiny Things: Philip Pullman Among the Poets
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The book I reread Not so much a single book as all the poetry I know by heart, and all the poetry I don’t know by heart and want to. Poetry ...
Reading Around: Recommended by Pullman
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I wrote this a long time ago, so long ago I think I tried to have it printed in the college magazine. As I start to work again on study mate...
Light and Dark: Splintered Light by Verlyn Flieger and Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
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We all know the ways of ideas. How sometimes a good idea will come to mind just after we needed it, ex post facto and extraneous. Sometimes ...
Sunday, October 30, 2022
The Teacher Trap
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That is, if we take the Parent in Nate Hilger's title to be a noun rather than a verb; otherwise, it's the teach (v) trap we're...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Thoughtful Dad Podcast
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Quick note: Joe and I started working on a new series on being a dad :)
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