by Carole Duff | Aug 16, 2021 | Writing and Reading |
Was any part of my memory true? Ten years ago, I wrote about memories of the day a fast-moving snow storm dumped several inches of snow on southern Connecticut—before Halloween. I was in high school at the time. In the middle of the day, school administrators made the...
by Carole Duff | Aug 2, 2021 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
At church yesterday—in the visiting time after morning rehearsal and before the service began—for some reason, I caught myself thinking about relationships and Beth Kephart’s Wife, Daughter, Self: A Memoir in Essays. The book sections into...
by Carole Duff | Jul 26, 2021 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Modern Atheism 101 Remember the morning last May when I went upstairs to the loft and Keith read a passage from Rabbi Moshe Averick’s Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism? Well, after he finished reading the book, he passed it along to me. As...
by Carole Duff | May 17, 2021 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
This is a heartfelt message to my former student Melinda French Gates. Praying for Marriages Last week, visiting family members asked me to pray for their dear neighbors, who are having marital problems. They have two young children. “Certainly,” I said. “Keith and I...
by Carole Duff | May 10, 2021 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
She was my mother. In quick succession, Gayle Greene suffers the loss of her beloved aunt and mother. She’s the last of her family; her only sibling and her father are also deceased. Sifting through photographs and belongings left behind, she grieves her losses,...
by Carole Duff | May 3, 2021 | Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
The crucial decision regarding the existence of God Last Friday morning—a delightful sunny day compared to today’s delightful rain—I went upstairs to the loft in order to place some end-of-the-month financial records in the file cabinet. Hearing my footsteps and the...