by Carole Duff | Jun 18, 2012 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Last Thanksgiving, I wrote about pride and humility. Today, with yet another graduation speech trending on the Internet, I’m thinking about self-conceit in a different context. Earlier this month, Wellesley High School English teacher David McCullough,...
by Carole Duff | Jun 11, 2012 | Writing and Reading |
Whenever I sit down to write a first draft or begin any creative project for that matter, my first effort is usually a childish mess that only a mother could love. Out of that mess comes something that might be good enough for a high school assignment, maybe even a...
by Carole Duff | Jun 4, 2012 | Local or Human Interest, Writing and Reading |
This past weekend, I logged into one of my email accounts, in order to send a message to my mother, and received this error statement: The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server...
by Carole Duff | May 29, 2012 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Nature |
This weekend, during our routine pre-sunrise walk, Heathcliff and I found a box turtle making her way across the rarely travelled, gravel turn-around. Perhaps the turtle sought shelter in the accumulated leaves and mud on the other side, a place to lay her eggs or to...
by Carole Duff | May 22, 2012 | Writing and Reading |
Over the weekend, my friend Sarah Myers posted The Noontimes blog about re-visitation, transitional times of change in our lives when we reinvestigate our identities and actions. In my youth, I thought that a traditional life script was a three-act play (childhood and...
