by Carole Duff | Feb 10, 2014 | Writing and Reading |
During my college years in the early 70’s, I read Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock. Toffler predicted increased automation and wealth such that by the year 2000, we all would need ‘leisure counselors’ to help us adjust to having large amounts of free time. Check out this...
by Carole Duff | Feb 3, 2014 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
February 2, 2014 marks Super Bowl XLVIII, the death of 46-year-old actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the day Punxsutawney Phil emerges to predict a sooner or later arrival of spring, three seemingly unrelated events with themes echoing in the 1993 movie Groundhog Day....
by Carole Duff | Jan 29, 2014 | Local or Human Interest, Nature, Writing and Reading |
“When a man lives in one place for most of his life, he doesn’t need GPS. He is guided by memories…” stated the lead-in to Garrison Keillor’s article “There’s No Place Like Home: A Personal Geography” in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic. Personal...
by Carole Duff | Jan 13, 2014 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
In a recent blog post, Patrick Ross mentioned his enthusiasm for setting goals rather than making New Years Resolutions, which none of us seem to keep. He started with a vision statement – what he enjoys doing and where he’d like to be in five years, which Ross soon...
by Carole Duff | Nov 26, 2013 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
“I wish I’d been born in the 19th century,” I told my father one day in my far-past adolescence. “It is my favorite time in history.” In my teenaged mind, the 19th century in the United States elicited thoughts of romance and realism, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and...
by Carole Duff | Nov 11, 2013 | Writing and Reading |
A couple of Saturdays ago, I attended the Women’s Book Club at Bethany Lutheran Church in Waynesboro, Virginia. Only a foursome, but discussion was lively in part because of the book, Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood. I had read Dillard’s essay “Total Eclipse”...
