1st Paper
2nd Cotton
3rd Leather
4th Flowers
5th Wood
6th Iron
7th Copper
8th Bronze
9th Pottery
10th Aluminum.
aluminum: a metal,
glimmering, malleable—
(malleable: able to be shaped—
shaped: fashioned and turned,)
sturdy in form, carefully filed down,
smoothed for days upon days:
on late-night couches,
along crashing waves,
beneath gilded aspens,
on a bluebonnet carpet,
amid blue-green […]

Spent Friday evening and Saturday all day at the church (helped lead the new member’s class, then preached at Saturday night service), then all Sunday morning of course. Witnessed some luminous moments. A couple in the new members’ class talked about giving birth to a child who was missing part of his brain. He was […]

<Gen X Rant…>
Several weeks ago the Diane Rehm Show was dealing with the new regulations in medical schools that limit the number of hours a medical resident can work each week to 80. That is not a typo. 80 hours a week is the limit, and that is an improvement over the past system, which […]

[You have probably discovered by now that titles are the bane of my existence.]
It’s Columbus Day, and the schools are off, which means that day care is closed as well. My daughter and I are home, and she is watching Sesame Street. How much blogging can I get done between now (Global Grover) and the […]

Most people agree that it’s inappropriate for parents to put extreme pressure on their kids to achieve, and it’s really inappropriate to try to live vicariously through them. You grownups had your chance to be a prima ballerina or an astronaut, the thinking goes, but your moment is over, and it’s fine to encourage your […]