by Jan Bear | Sep 26, 2004 | Uncategorized
Stanley Fish, dean emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, takes side-by-side speeches of Kerry and Bush and deduces the following object lesson: Words are not just the cosmetic clothing of some underlying integrity; they are the operational vehicles of...
by Jan Bear | Sep 20, 2004 | Uncategorized
After spending two weeks on a journey from the West to the South and back, I have a few scattered observations about flyover America (in no particular order): You often get the sense that it’s still the Sixties, driving the remaining stretches of the old Route...
by Jan Bear | Sep 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
My uncle was preaching at a tiny church in the town of Eros, La. He’s my mother’s little brother, and he looks more and more like my grandfather every year. The church meets in a remodeled house trailer on a lot about a block off the Highway 34, behind the...
by Jan Bear | Sep 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
I may have wiped my hard disk today–taking out calendars, addresses, e-mails, passwords, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, blogs in process, photos, music and more. I am, on the one hand, verklempt. I am, on the other, philosophical. Maybe it’s time for a...
by Jan Bear | Aug 23, 2004 | Uncategorized
When we last met Sadie, she had fallen asleep after an exciting day in Oregon City. Today, she was decidedly lumpy. She came into the house with a welt the size of a ping pong ball on her muzzle just below her eye and other lumps of various sizes all over her back and...