Dreams and Visions
Last night I dreamt of Sewanee. It was an intensely vivid dream, and one of those rare ones that...
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OPINION
Aunt Bossy
Everybody Loses Dear Aunt Bossy, I grew up in a diverse neighborhood and school, have hired people...
Read MoreHoly Week Confession
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. For starters, I have stopped going to church. I don’t know...
Read MoreVaccination Frustration
Here at our house, we celebrated the First Anniversary of Covid 19 by scoring a couple of...
Read MoreAunt Bossy
HELP FOR DEPRESSION This letter is a couple of years old, but after the brouhaha about Meghan and...
Read MoreOn Big Tech, Booming & Birdseed
Last week, my friend D. posted the following announcement on Facebook: Today, I smash my goal of...
Read MoreAunt Bossy
Class Will Come to Order! Dear Aunt Bossy, Recently, a couple of us were talking about a mutual...
Read MoreOn Springsteen, The Middle, and The Media
It was just past halftime on Super Bowl Sunday, and I was in bed reading. (Hey, I’d made it...
Read MoreAunt Bossy
Make Your Own Movie Dear Aunt Bossy, I am struggling with how to be happy in these horrible and...
Read MoreNotes On An Obsession
Well, that was fast. In our last issue, I opined: “If people with very different values and...
Read MoreNew Year Courage, Ready or Not
I have been praying — though there’s not a lot of time for it with all the prayers I’m receiving....
Read MoreOf Life and Love and Covid Christmas
Like millions of Americans, my family and I have been grappling with the big Christmas Question....
Read MoreScrooge, The Grinch, and Me
“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more . . . He became as good a...
Read MoreAunt Bossy
To Mask or Un-Mask (yourself and others) Dear Aunt Bossy, I happen to know that a friend’s...
Read MoreBlowing Thought Bubbles
In our last issue, I copped out and reran a four-year-old column. I’d written it right before the...
Read MoreThe Wisdom of Gandalf, Revisited
By Margaret Evans, EditorEditor’s Note: I first published this essay four years ago, just before...
Read MoreAn Affair to Remember
By Margaret Evans, Editor It was a breezy October evening, not quite dark, when we arrived at our...
Read MoreOde To a Google Doodle
By Margaret Evans, Editor For generations, American parents have been tutoring their children in...
Read MoreWhere Did the Time Go?
Cause time is the worst kind of friend Always there till you need it, then gone in the end Oh but...
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