the latest posts tagged ‘religion’
the reason for whose season?
Dear Christmas Message Email Sender: I’m writing with the hope that we can go back to when I loved December and Christmas, when tree lots smelled like fresh-cut pines and friends stopped by with homemade cookies, when the cold outside made it all the more wonderful to be inside and warm, sliding on hardwood floors…
just shut it
People would get along a lot better if everyone kept stuff to themselves. You know, like it was when there was a stringent social code of what you could and shouldn’t talk about, before it became all the rage to share. Let’s start with: I have issues and so do you. There are things…
red blanket dream
It’s beginning, the last bit, the chunk of time we will measure after the clock stops. We’ll say I remember when we knew it wouldn’t be much longer. We’ll say I remember where I was sitting when I read his email, the one he sent to a handful of us, the one that said…
turn turn turn
Waiting for someone you love to die, I told a writer friend last week, is one of the circles of Hell. He said, “You should write about your view from the spiral because you will never be exactly there again.” It is a monstrous eyewall, the inside of a spinning, screaming…
in the company of saints
Two years ago this month Mr. Forte and I were in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, walking around the old town on a beautiful blue-sky day, stopping at old church after another. I was completely charmed by this place. Who wouldn’t love a town that’s on the Bay of Fundy? This small collection…