by Jan Bear | Mar 8, 2004 | Uncategorized
Stephen VanDyke has created an illustration that addresses a question that’s been niggling at my brain for a while: Where do bloggers get this stuff? Now I know. Pull it from Google news or e-mail, lift from other bloggers, quote, comment, modify, parodize....
by Jan Bear | Mar 7, 2004 | Uncategorized
A compelling article about an unpeasant topic is at Legal Affairs, “The Problem of Prison Rape”: ON A RECENT AFTERNOON, I visited the home of Edward Tuddenham in Austin, Tex. He showed me to a seat in his study, where the walls were adorned with American...
by Jan Bear | Mar 6, 2004 | Uncategorized
I sometimes think directing an a cappella choir must be a little like playing an organ in which all the keys have their own wills, their own ideas about what they ought to play, who sometimes aren’t paying attention and sometimes don’t know or can’t...
by Jan Bear | Mar 6, 2004 | Uncategorized
I just got back from an all-day writing workshop with Cricket Pechstein, sponsored by Oregon Writers’ Colony. If you ever get a chance to take a class with her–and it’s quite possible, because she does workshops and writers’ conferences all...
by Jan Bear | Mar 6, 2004 | Uncategorized
Havdala at Doves and Pomegranates does a short review of Seraphim Rose’s The Soul After Death (here’s the first part). I never got through the book and developed a deep suspicion of it and its author because I found it so nearly unreadable (I developed...