- Our favorite YW blog has a great review of Pres. Dalton’s talk today — love the shout-out to the outdoor meeting. Let’s hope that takes. There’s also a lively discussion about it at FMH.
- A moving essay from the latest Sunston: How the Prayers Ran Dry
- Changing diapers while the Dow falls.
- Jana . . . I was just telling my juniors about “Author’s Ridge at the Concord cemetary, how every October I would take a book of poetry and sit near Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott. I even got a little teary. So glad you could make it there for me . . .
- Kiskilili takes another look at the tricky word “preside” — can’t we just say father’s are vital?
- Dalene: In praise of parenting teenagers
Just Because:
- P.J. O’Rourke looks at death . . . and makes us laugh
- The feel good story of the year . . . even if you aren’t a Red Sox fan
- Winner of the worst opening sentence contest
Deborah:
Glad to know that I could be a little teary on Author’s Ridge for ya this time. Maybe next year we’ll go together?
Thank you for the link to my essay–I didn’t even know it was posted there!
oops. messed up my own name. Thanks again (although can I quibble that the title of the essay is slightly misquoted?)!
Emily — I didn’t realize that was you! Now I love the essay even more — and I’ve fixed the title . . .