by Jan Bear | Apr 27, 2004 | Uncategorized
My friend Anne blogged about the new reality show, The Swan, last week: I’m outraged by the continual message that only one type of body is beautiful and the rest of us need life-threatening measures in order to get one. I watched the first episode with my...
by Jan Bear | Apr 26, 2004 | Uncategorized
He’s drowning, and I can’t swim well enough to save him (metaphorically). Pejman, an Iranian-Jewish attorney and one of the best voices in the blogosphere, has innocently walked into dangerous country. He asks: How does the Trinity work, exactly?and Jesus...
by Jan Bear | Apr 25, 2004 | Uncategorized
Kenai sleeps in the back yard with her head on her front paws and her back legs lying useless under her. She is more than 16 years old, and her face, which once had the expression of a mischievous racoon, is now gray. Every few hours she barks her distress....
by Jan Bear | Apr 23, 2004 | Uncategorized
There’s a lot going on in the world — stuff I would blog about, stuff I would leave to others, stuff that’s important or funny or both — but when your kid is suffering, it doesn’t seem to matter. If you’re praying people, and I...
by Jan Bear | Apr 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
Not. A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s screenplays goes to the University of South Carolina after being dug out of a file cabinet in Warner Brothers Studios somewhere. (I have an image of the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones sees where the...
by Jan Bear | Apr 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
I neglected to mention that The Onion Dome is up. Our intrepid editor has a story about the, shall we say, dark underside of Pascha. I reported on an Orthodox answer to Left Behind, and Marie told of the triumph over sexism in her parish. Father Vasiliy gives us the...