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Years ago I read an Donna Williams’ autobiography–I wish I knew where I put it–Nobody Nowhere. Two twin loves stories have haunted me lately, though I can’t reread Nobody Nowhere right now, as I don’t know where it is. I wrote on my blog about it not too long ago. Yet I want to tellContinue reading “An Autistic Love Story”

My Aunt Margaret sent me a note today, that she has read all of my Blogs and found them “interesting.” However, she says, and this is why I am writing this, that I got a fact on Dan Rather wrong: he was not a World War II vet but slightly younger. She said it wasContinue reading “From Literary Gaffes to Perfectionism”

There is a Charles Dickens quote to his best friend John Forster which, not finding it, I can only paraphrase: “Was there a friend I never had who would have truly understood me?” Well, John Forster and Wilkie Collins understood Dickens as well as anyone did. Even his wife Catherine must have regarded him asContinue reading “All By Myself”

I have a mere 6 pages typed up of “The Call,” part of my lecture series Abraham, Then and Now. I believe I can finish this lecture–projected at 10 pages long–tomorrow. I have written down much of the part on Christianity. Largely this involved a lengthy quotation about the Apostle Paul from Bruce Feiler’s Abraham:Continue reading “Abraham, Then and Now II”

Jimmy Stewart is one of my favorite Hollywood Actors. I know that he was both “way back in the past” and “not the sophisticated Betty Davis or handsome Cary Grant or physically stunning Grace Kelley.” Yet there was something so lovable about him, something that transcends the greatness that these other actors achieves in theContinue reading “Harvey”

Years ago–before 9-11– I was taking Greek History, and my teacher asked us as we read part of Thucydides quoting Pericles, “People ask today, ‘What is it that is worth dying for? Is anything? Do we really know?” She asked this because Pericles is defending the Athenian way of life against the Spartans. He saysContinue reading “Loving God with All Your Soul”

I have read all of the books that I had to read for my four-class lecture series: “Abraham, Then and Now.” I have already started the writing: a page down in the computer from a few days back, and three written pages which is where I began after I got all of the raw materialContinue reading “Abraham, Then and Now I”

There is a terrible misconception about cooking. Betty Freidan, though she meant well, is its most famous proponent: Cooking is “drudgery.” This view is well intentioned in its way: Betty Freidan and others who were forced to live in the home came to view its principle occupations, the cooking, the laundry, the cleaning, as thingsContinue reading “Asparagus Rolls”

I have often contemplated the notions of Heroism in Greek mythology and in the Hebrew Bible. I will compare two “flawed” heroes. One of them is Achilles. Achilles in the Iliad is flawed because of his pride. It his pride–and not just his heel, though that it is military weak spot–that kills him in theContinue reading “Flawed Heroes in Greek and Hebrew”

I remember when I was in High School, Charles Dickens was my favorite writer. To this day, his illuminating spirit guides me in much of what I write. I am convinced my desire to help poorer people than myself began with Dickens (and perhaps even the New Testament). My dad’s second wife would read throughContinue reading “The Gradgrind Education System”