Continue Reading I quietly wonder I quietly wonder if the longing ever goes away. This is November, the month of my mother’s death in 1983, and even…
Continue Reading I often wonder… I often wonder how so many women out there manage to face health decisions and catastrophes with courage, independently of how varied…
Continue Reading I sometimes wonder… I sometimes wonder where people come up with language that is at once enticing and also really, really far fetched. “Bedeviled by…
Continue Reading I wonder… Imagine someone offered you the main role in a 5 minute-play about a failed reconciliation between lovers. You would have to perform…
Continue Reading Contradictions: Science vs Science (2) Yesterday I wrote about some reasons why people distrust or outright reject science: contradictory findings are held against the validity of the…
Continue Reading Contradictions: Science vs Science (1). Never mind magic, miracles, witchcraft, the previous topics of this week. Many people don’t believe in science either, what with all the…
Continue Reading Contradictions: Freedom vs Control We started the week with magic, then miracles. Can witchcraft be far behind? Tired yet of rhetorical questions? I just learned that Sylvia…
Continue Reading Contradictions: Divination vs Mathematics Really, the precise formulation should be divination producing geometric art used in faith healing – too clunky a title of course. But…
Continue Reading Contradictions: Science vs Magic I’m torn today between choices of theme for the blog. Contradictions? Surprises? Puzzles? Since I dislike puzzles, feel ambivalent about surprises…
Continue Reading Musical Cities: Portland, OR Since I couldn’t decide if Vienna, Paris or Berlin deserved the last slot of our mini series, I turned to Portland. We…
