“Maybe you just want to remember the great Christmas you had with her? Not be here for the messy end and just come for the funeral?” For a few minutes I thought about it…maybe he had a good point,
It’s heartening to see Sparhawk and Parker as examples of well respected and clearly progressive members of my church who lived authentically. At Mary Bradford’s funeral, authenticity was a common theme as well. If she had decided to suppress her personality and beliefs to better fit in with...
The 1967 poem from which it is (mis)taken contains far bleaker Thomas-esque currents (‘ugliness that scars the spirit / as the earth’, ‘rivers of mingled blood and sweat’), but this opening snippet has become both tourist branding, found everywhere it can be sold, and a kind of ...
You could even be jailed for helping to arrange a protest, promoting it or communicating information about it on social media. And thanks to our home secretary, Priti Patel – a woman so appallingly evil she has a good chance of being the villain in the next James Bond film – you can ...
We stopped to read the signs at spots that grabbed our attention and toured Paul Revere’s home, where we learned that the Wadsworth poem might have been quite different had his dad not anglicized his Huguenot name from Appolos Rivoire to Paul Revere. (Rivoire is a harder name than ...