Monthly Archives: May 2009

A Case of the Human Condition: Would My Husband Like to Add My Name to His?

Jon and I had been married nearly 12 years. It was time to pop the question again. I had taken his last name as mine. Would he like to add my maiden name to his?

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Writing Room: Rhetoric – What the Heck Is It?

My daughter Christina discovered the art of rhetoric when she was being weaned from baby bottle to plastic cup. She’d say, “I want milk and I don’t want it in a cup” — an elegant illocutionary statement that usually got her what she wanted, her bottle.

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A Case of the Human Condition: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and the Indian I Wanted to Be

Growing up in Michigan, I read “Hiawatha,” but I was never exposed to the poems and stories of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, a nineteenth-century Ojibway Indian from the Upper Peninsula. I was culturally deprived.

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God’s Big Blog: When Religious Liberty and Gay Rights Clash

Today’s Pew Forum website thoughtfully addresses the potential conflicts between religious freedom and gay marriage rights.

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A Case of the Human Condition: When a Young Mother Dies

In the months and years before she died of breast cancer, Beverly Bondy Rose created a safe and loving place for her little daugher and the people around her.

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