tuesday reads
Tess and I are still making our way through The Underneath. I just started The Warmth of Other Suns. And I am continuing my re-read of When Women Were Birds. And you? What are you reading?
tuesday reads.
Tess and I finished Keeper last week–it was a complex book and one we loved reading together. At the end, we rushed up to bedtime early to see how everything turned out. There were moments of real knowing, real loss, and real suspense. Now, given her interest in physics and …
Women make language – Marilynne Robinson
If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry. -Willa Cather, My Antonia Suzanne Maggio-Hucek has inspired me to focus on women this month, in honor of Women’s History Month. And so, a month of women, some you will know, others you won’t, all …
With gratitude for this intentional community
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race. –Cicero As this third year of 37days ends, I’ve spent this last week reading again the comments left on this site in 2007—and visiting the websites of their authors, as well as …
Read this book…
Thanks to everyone for diversity book club suggestions – you are helping to create an amazing list. Keep those suggestions coming… The first book we’re reading for our April meeting is "The Time of Our Singing" by Richard Powers. My philosophy professor from way back in my days at Guilford …
Start a diversity bookclub
In any community, there are diversity issues – the natives vs the newcomers, race issues that pit black against white, gay and straight clashes, classism – and often, we’re not equipped to talk about them. Dialogue that approaches the issues head-on sometimes is too difficult, we avoid it, or we …
Reading list…
Readers were generous to share their suggestions for our 2007 reading challenge – you can find the list of books suggested by 37days readers here. The challenge has begun! [These lovely and too-well organized to be in my home shelves are indeed, not mine. Instead, they are from the gorgeous …
Account for your days
“So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom” -Psalms 90:12 Flinging oneself into a new year is an easier jump if the past is accounted for, the ledger closed. I’ve written some 175,000 words on 37days this year. That’s a lot of …
