“Just Bought This for the JVC Boston House” by Maggie Needham
Maggie Needham
Gratitude of the Day
Thanks to Shehmin Awan for all you do for the Maryville community and beyond.
Share the Wealth with Tony Albrecht: Quit Your Job. Save the World.
Hi, I’m Tony, and Share the Wealth this week will be me making a case for why quitting your job could help save the world. Yes, I may not know you, but more than 80%…
Reading List
After recent correspondence with Robert MacArthur, I went back to see the books we read when he took Social Justice with me in the fall of 2005. I must say–I am glad I assigned these! Riane…
Message from Yael Who’s on Her Way to Sri Lanka
Taking Dear Layla on the road with me…for a 4th read. Salam forever, wherever.
Hug-Inspiring!
Jason Makansi shared this post on Facebook to the Arab American Literature Public Group: I hope members here will take a close look at a new wonderful, unique epistolary novel, Dear Layla: Welcome to Palestine…
Out West
Caroline Becherer
The On-going Task: Challenging Illegitimate Authority
At Northwest Coffee, I was having a conversation with Theresa Schafer about women’s ordination and clericalism, and I paraphrased what Noam Chomsky once said about any hierarchy or authority needing to justify itself. Later, I found…
How To Have Fun
Mev taught me something very important: She taught me that when you go to Ted Drewes you could mix all different kinds of frozen custard flavors together. I would never have dreamed of some of…
Your Name Came Up (Daydream/3)
I smelled like smoke Which is unusual for me But I humored him Though it wasn’t funny To think of him dying From the deliberate wreckage of his lungs I hadn’t seen him in ages…