The Good News of Opening, 4.9.2017
I asked Kine and Puck if they’d be willing to open their home on campus to host Share the Wealth with Marilyn Vazquez, and they agreed; warm hospitality was also extended by tennis teammates Bekah…
Category: Friends
The Good News of Remembering a Friend, 4.8.2017
In 45 minutes I wrote three post cards, two letters and one note to a friend on the East Coast; I’ll post one a day for the upcoming week.
The Good News of a Knock on the Front Door, 4.7.2017
We were eating dinner when there was a short knock at the door. Whose knock was it—Charlene? Davion? Andrew? Joanie answered the door, and it was Chelsea Jaeger! She lives several houses up the block,…
The Good News of Rereading, 4.2.2017
Tasha Rutledge and I had class together when she was a freshman at SLU in 2007. We read The Book of Mev in that class, and many years later she told me she reads it…
Sunday 9 April — Share the Wealth with Marilyn Vazquez
I came to the U.S when I was five months old, and attended public schools, made friends, and played sports my whole life. I will be speaking about the two key issues facing the integrated…
Average
It’s a practice I’m pretty average at it But compared to what Or to whom? Take Chomsky, for instance: In the 1990s He said that he spent 20-25 hours a week Writing letters This was…
The Good News of a Play, 3.31.2017
Playwright, clown, musician, and mensch Colin McLaughlin has invited friends over this evening to do a collective reading of his new play, Jailbird, about Eugene Debs. Colin asked me to read Debs’ famous statement to…
The Good News of a Play, 3.31.2017
Playwright, clown, musician, and mensch Colin McLaughlin has invited friends over this evening to do a collective reading of his new play, Jailbird, about Eugene Debs. Colin asked me to read Debs’ famous statement to…
The Good News of Jean Abbott’s Accompaniment, 3.30.2017
Jean Abbott* is like Kwan Yin, a bodhisattva who hears the cries of the world and through such listening knows what to do, or knows sometimes that there’s nothing to do except the being present…
The Good News of Monthly Mutuality, 3.29.2017
Since this past September, Cami Kasmerchak and I have been visiting monthly, taking turns to come up with an agenda to explore topics and themes of mutual interest, such as photography, politics, poetry, traveling, teachers,…