Immortal Irony
In his short story “The Ambitious Guest,” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a lot of irony. A lot might actually be an understatement. The story is riddled with irony... Read more.
Rough Weather
(Below is a column from our archives, which pertains to some of the ‘rough weather’ tht has been visited upon many people of late. What Carolynne Estis... Read more.
Life is Not a Fairy Tale
When a person gets everything that she wants, when she has all the things that she thinks she needs, and life is being wonderfully kind; when there is nothing terrible... Read more.
The Blessings of Monotony
(As we all enter back into our ‘ordinary’ routines after Chrismas holidays, it is good to reflect upon the blessings of monotony, upon which I myself... Read more.
Mud
Most of my family is only at our “home” during the Christmas holidays. Because our time there is short, generally spanning between American Thanksgiving and... Read more.
Dignity for All
In all the debates that are going on in the world, there is, perhaps, none that are so relative as that which surrounds abortion, and each January brings that argument... Read more.
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The Power of Thanksgiving
November 28th was Thanksgiving here in the United States. This year Thanksgiving appears to be the least appreciated holiday of the year. For the most part, stores... Read more.
Be not a bison
A few weeks ago, as my family drove through South Dakota, we spotted a small herd of bison in a cramped, muddy pen. It was sad enough to cause my mother to remark... Read more.
The Secret Life of the American Fairy Tale
It’s pretty easy these days to see that the world isn’t doing so well. Babies are murdered by the thousands because they are inconvenient, divorce rates... Read more.
Eating Corn
When I was growing up, my family planted a vegetable garden almost every summer. It was never a very big garden, just big enough for a decent crop of corn, peppers,... Read more.