by Jan Bear | Apr 5, 2005 | Uncategorized
It was a crazy morning. Young-adult daughter’s car is in the shop, and we’re sharing a vehicle. I dropped her off at school, ran across town for an interview for the day job, went back to pick her up at school and leave her the car for the rest of her...
by Jan Bear | Apr 4, 2005 | Uncategorized
Your womb became more spacious than the heavens . . . . She had been through a rough time, partly of her own making, and she had come home — to the place where “if you have to go there, they have to take you in.” We took her to the emergency room to...
by Jan Bear | Mar 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
This map shows generic names for carbonated drinks. Besides being a lovely mosaic of the USA, it tells a story of migration and influence, as well as pockets of disconformity. Why is St. Louis “soda” country at the juncture of “coke” and...
by Jan Bear | Mar 27, 2005 | Uncategorized
Western Easter, 2005I stopped at the Starbucks in Lake Oswego after church today. It’s the second Sunday in Lent for us Orthodox (Pascha is May 1), because of a glitch in the calendar and Orthodox recalcitrance. Papacino’s, our neighborhood coffee shop,...
by Jan Bear | Mar 14, 2005 | Uncategorized
I would have thought from the title of Alain de Botton’s Status Anxiety that it’s just another self-help book and have passed on it. In fact, it is another self-help book, in a way, but this author of The Art of Travel makes the genre something beautiful,...
by Jan Bear | Feb 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
I can’t type any more, because someone moved all the keys around. When I stand in the choir, my hands are doing the steno of the lyrics. I’m on lesson 26 of 32 in Phoenix theory before I begin speedbuilding in earnest — going from somewhere in the...