Are You Sure?
September 30, 2007
Filed in: The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
Over at the Practically Perfect blog, Jennifer is remarking upon the phenomenon of magazines, now even men’s magazines, spending all their editorial energy telling their readers how to improve the little, improvable parts of their lives while pretty much ignoring both the Big Questions and the...
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Love O Careless Love
September 20, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
Did anyone else catch Donald Hall’s poem in today’s Writer’s Almanac?
He’s got a line that pretty much sums up my philosophy on marriage (if I could be said to have such a thing):
We learned how to love each other
by loving together
good things wholly outside each other.
Exactly.
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Tag. You’re It
September 13, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
UPDATE: As I’m sure you’ve already guessed, this weekend was transfigurative. Friday I was a girl who hated yard sales because she was an insecure snob. Tonight I am a woman who hates yard sales because they suck. Never again, dear readers. Never. Again.
Related: anbody interested in four...
