Monthly Archives: January 2009

Jesus Wept.

The day my grandmother died, a friend of ours found out his brother had been in a terrible accident. And two days later, the brother was gone, leaving behind a wife and children, three brothers, parents. Everyone. The depth of their grief is something I have never experienced and cannot imagine, and for the past [...]
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The Trumpet of Conscience

If you haven’t read The Trumpet of Conscience, a book of the last speeches given by Martin Luther King Jr., go right now and get it. Right now! You’ll finish it in no time, and if you changed a few dates and names of wars, you’d swear it was written today. An excerpt. This was written [...]
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“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

(subject line: Oscar Wilde) After my last post, I put together a rockin’ library list and a solid grocery list and headed out for an afternoon of errands. On the way to my next-to-last stop, my mom called and told me my grandmother had just passed away. Dad had gone up to West Virginia right [...]
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Blob.

Ever since about the middle of December, I’ve been eating all sorts and varieties of sugary things. When we came back to North Carolina, I was toting a new mixer from the in-laws, so I decided I’d make two batches of cookies (and of course I had to try to make these lovely Brigadeiros that [...]
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