Category: Blog

Love at super speed

Every so often Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac features some sweet nostalgia, sure to make almost anyone regret his or her no more being a kid.  Often it’s all

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A Blogger’s Dilemma/Whine

It’s about me. It’s all about me.  The Twelve is supposed to move and work within that great tradition of Reformed cultural commentary. As a

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Painting Reality

What art captivates your attention? I remember the first time I walked through the Museum of Modern Art, I felt like I was Alice who

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The Wrong Stuff

I was raised a space cadet in the 1960s, part of a generation absorbed and obsessed with astronauts and the moon race.  I remember being

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Gravity

Two weeks ago I went to the late showing of Gravity… by myself. Fitting, I guess. Alone, with my glasses on, in the darkness. I read

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What Set It Off?

I’ve been reading some of the flood of books coming out ahead of next year’s centennial of the start of World War I. There’s something

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