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Turns out, I'm a Touron
As I set off on my journey, alone, from Antibes to Saint Maximin la Sainte Baume for my Mary Magdalene mini-pilgrimage, all my lofty musings (Tourist…
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Je m'appelle Tourist, Traveler, Pilgrim
Though my travel documents--and our travel agent--list me as a tourist on this vacation, I’ve always wanted to think of myself as a Traveler.
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Commit to the Pour
Today I can’t remember where I read (or heard) “commit to the pour,” but it has to do with how to pour liquid from a container that has no spout, like…
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Attempting Alignment
Which sounds very much like jousting at windmills.
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Liturgical Seasons, Epiphanic Moments, and My Cocktail Calendar
Tuesday was Epiphany, the Christian celebration of the day the three wise men (or three guys named Weitzman) arrived at the stable where the Christ…
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Fierce Foolery: On Cold-blooded Killers
On Christmas Eve it is our tradition to kill our own food and cook it.
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Under the Lemon Glaze
My mother quickly became famous for her pound cake.
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Diatonic Chords: My Melissa Etheridge Story
Melissa Etheridge at the ACL Moody Theater in Austin, Texas.
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Cranberry Stains and the Fabric of our Lives
Thanksgiving week makes me think about cranberry stains and fabric, about fabric as a manufactured thing.
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Against Forgetting
The week before a work conference in Miami Beach I had been tip-toeing my way through Carolyn Forche’s 1993 anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth…
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The Metaphor Breaks Down
The day after the GOP sweep of Texas, and the country, I was confronted with three instances of ovarian cancer: the death of a friend of a friend, a…
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To Bee or Not To Bee
Turns out the compost bin we abandoned three years ago is full of bees.
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