Here are all 228 of my posts, by date:
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- June 2013 (4)
- 13: The Mother-of-the-Groom Diaries: Snapping Pictures at My Son’s Wedding (6)
- 11: The Mother-in-Law Diaries: A Groom’s Dinner at a Place Called the Bachelor Farmer (1)
- 08: The Mother-of-the-Groom Diaries: The Day Before the Big Day (6)
- 06: The Mother-of-the-Groom Diaries: They Did It. They Got Married (2)
- May 2013 (4)
- April 2013 (6)
- 25: The Mother-of-the-Groom Diaries — Am I Too Old for Splashy Earrings? (16)
- 18: My Killer Shoes — Brought Down to Size by Those Four-and-a-Half-Inch Heels (4)
- 11: Look for Me on Thursdays (2)
- 11: A Dad, a Mom and an 8-Year-Old With a Bashed Lip (2)
- 07: . . . And Two Books I Did Read, Sorta — By Lauren Winner and Anne LaMott (0)
- 06: Good Books I Haven’t Really Read: Anna Quindlen, Stephen Prothero, David Talbot and a Book About French Love . . . (4)
- March 2013 (7)
- 30: Shopping for a Mother-of-the-Groom Dress — Is That Me in the Mirror? Or Somebody’s Grandmother? (23)
- 23: From the de Young — A Final Toss of the Bouquet (0)
- 21: Leaves, Twigs and Seeds at the de Young — It’s Art, but Is It a Bouquet? (2)
- 20: Bouquets to Art at the de Young — Where Poppies Dance and Cactuses Are Petit Fours (2)
- 16: Photo Op: It’s Blooming Springtime on Our Hill — In March (10)
- 08: Writing Tips — Begged, Borrowed, but Mostly Stolen From My Favorite Writing Coaches (0)
- 01: Writing the Personal Essay — Forget the Good, Go for the Bad and the Ugly (2)
- February 2013 (4)
- January 2013 (4)
- December 2012 (4)
- November 2012 (5)
- 30: I’m the Mother of the Groom – Now What Do I Do? (10)
- 21: I’m Thankful For a Clean Oven, Fresh Ice Cubes . . . and a Daughter-in-Law-to-Be (2)
- 16: Anne Lamott on Getting Older — Drop That Rock (2)
- 09: Sue Johnson’s Lamps and Shades — Works of Art From a Little Shop in Berkeley (2)
- 02: Photo Op: Yosemite Rocks — And Sometimes It Rolls (0)
- October 2012 (8)
- 26: Walk 1000 Miles Around Lake Michigan? She Did It — Now I Don’t Have To (11)
- 20: Will Our Kids Grow Up to Be Cheaters Like Lance Armstrong? (0)
- 14: Belief Is Seriously Overrated — You Don’t Have to Be a Believer to Believe (6)
- 10: The Somethingists — They Don’t Believe in God, but They Do Believe in . . . Something (0)
- 09: The Rise of the “Nones” – Young Americans Are Doing Without Church (0)
- 06: When Your Kids Don’t Fight — Enough (3)
- 03: Amazing Clay — More Wonderful Stuff from the Berkeley Art Center Show (0)
- 02: Ceramics Envy at the Berkeley Art Center — I Want to Get My Hands into that Earthy, Messy, Squishy Clay (4)
- September 2012 (7)
- 29: Religion Scholar Huston Smith at 93 — ‘Be Happy!’ (8)
- 28: Buddhist Writing — Wisdom or Chicken Shit? (0)
- 22: Buddhist Teacher Jack Kornfield on Sex, Drugs and Enlightenment (0)
- 21: Book Openers: A Heather Donahue Lexicon — Flopsweat and Larfy Defined (0)
- 16: The Writing Room: Heather Donahue and Me – How I Got Hooked on a Pothead (4)
- 15: Sam Lamott Was a No-Show, but Anne Arrived With a Bouquet of Bons Mots (0)
- 14: Welcome to My Website . . . I Hope You’ll Stay a While (4)
- August 2012 (1)
- July 2012 (1)
- June 2012 (2)
- May 2012 (3)
- April 2012 (4)
- March 2012 (7)
- 31: In My Rain-Battered Garden — Nothing Is Forever, Not Even Those Poppies (2)
- 26: Ahead of the Curve on a Hot New Trend — Storytelling (0)
- 26: Tulips, Orchids and More — Florists Put on a Lively Show for the Dead (0)
- 24: Writers Grotto Writers Bask in Their Three Minutes of Fame (0)
- 20: It’s Spring in Our Brilliant, Bursting, Buzzing Front Yard (1)
- 19: Jeff Greenwald’s Merry Band of Storytellers (Including Me) Makes Its Debut (2)
- 05: A (Lengthy) Case of the Human Condition: Married 35 Years (0)
- January 2012 (6)
- 24: Why Meditate — When I Could Be Sweeping the Garage? (0)
- 10: GodsBigBlog: What Ever Happened to God? (0)
- 09: The Writing Room: Can This Guy Make Me a Star? (1)
- 04: A Case of the Human Condition: Our Christmas Candy Is — Gone! (0)
- 01: A Case of the Human Condition: Fewer Marriages — but More Facebook Relationships? (0)
- 01: A Case of the Human Condition: Holy Sex Toys (0)
- December 2011 (5)
- November 2011 (5)
- 23: A Three Dishwasher Day — Make that Four (0)
- 22: Lauren Winner: Seven Pithy Writing Tips From a Best-Selling Memoirist (1)
- 22: Book Openers: How’d He Get an Audience with Her? (0)
- 09: The Writing Room: Writing Tips from Jasmin Darznik of “Good Daughter” Fame (0)
- 08: Book Openers: Memoiring in the Mountains with the Bestselling Jasmin Darznik (0)
- October 2011 (9)
- 29: GodsBigBlog: Where — American — Jewish Women Must Move Aside for Men (0)
- 28: A Case of the Human Condition: My Daughter the Trash Heap (0)
- 25: Book Openers: Is Polygamy Normal? (7)
- 10: Post 9/11 Active Duty Vets: Country, Yes. God, Not So Much (0)
- 10: Book Openers: Good News — Life Is Flawed and There Is No Fixing It (0)
- 06: Twenty-two Years Later, A Tiananmen Survivor Finally Tells All (0)
- 05: Found: Big Bucks in My Sock Drawer. Lost: My Mother (0)
- 04: Book Openers: Why Are All Those Catholics – So Darned Catholic? (1)
- 03: Book Openers: Forgiveness Is Tough — Atonement, Even Tougher (1)
- September 2011 (2)
- July 2011 (1)
- April 2011 (1)
- March 2011 (1)
- 25: How to Tell if You’re a Writer (0)
- June 2010 (1)
- May 2010 (4)
- 29: A Case of the Human Condition: A Half Century Later I’m Still a Size 10 . . . OK, 12 (3)
- 22: A Manners-Challenged Kid Who Became the Apple of His Grandma’s Eye (1)
- 08: The Hagia Sophia: Where Christianity and Islam Coexist — and Clash (5)
- 04: Why I Can’t Write My Memoir — Not the Part About My Mom Anyway (3)
- April 2010 (4)
- March 2010 (5)
- 27: A Case of the Human Condition: Four-Year-Old Girls — The Last Bastion of Pretty (1)
- 19: A Case of the Human Condition: Spring’s Here — And So Is That Guy With His Camera (0)
- 13: A Case of the Human Condition: How Millennial Are You? (1)
- 13: Guest Post From Jon: Does “Under God” Belong in the Pledge of Allegiance? (3)
- 06: When a Grown Daughter Doesn’t Call — Or, How to Overmother a Twenty-Something (5)
- February 2010 (4)
- 27: Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder – But What If There’s No Beholder? (0)
- 19: The Writing Room: My Idea of a Good Time — A Week in the Mountains with a Bunch of Other Writers (0)
- 13: A Case of the Human Condition: A Child Is Born — And So Is a Grandpa (0)
- 06: The Writing Room: George Leonard and the Tao of Writing (2)
- January 2010 (7)
- 30: A Case of the Human Condition: The Center of the Universe? It’s a Little Beach in Michigan, of Course (0)
- 26: A Case of the Human Condition: Another Threat to Lake Michigan — Asian Carp (0)
- 23: A Case of the Human Condition: Build a Wind Farm — Wreck Lake Michigan (10)
- 18: The Writing Room: Carol Edgarian’s Letter to a Young Writer (0)
- 16: The Writing Room: Different From, Different Than – Which Is It? (2)
- 09: Geographic Mobility in America — Watching My Grown-Up Kids Disappear (4)
- 02: A (Pillow) Case of the Human Condition: Time to Crack Open That Hope Chest and Live a Little (2)
- December 2009 (5)
- 29: A (Contagious) Case of the Human Condition: How a Mother of Preschool Kids Outsmarts the Mighty Microbe (0)
- 18: Feng Shui for the Writing Room and Bedroom — Your Mother’s Not Allowed, and Neither Are Your Kids (0)
- 12: Harvard’s Harvey Cox: You Don’t Have to Believe to Be a Christian (1)
- 08: The Writing Room: Journalists in Jail Around the World — More and More Are Freelancers (0)
- 07: Snow in California (0)
- November 2009 (6)
- 27: Help! My Kids Aren’t Perfect After All (3)
- 18: Seaholm: My Old High School — It’s Not Stuck in the Twentieth Century (6)
- 17: A Case of the Human Condition: Some Scenes from Birmingham, Michigan, Today (0)
- 16: A Case of the Human Condition: It’s Us — The Class of ’59 (0)
- 16: High School Revisited: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same — Only Different (0)
- 02: A Case of the Human Condition: I’ve Got a Dirty Little Secret — I (Still) Can’t Say No to Toys (2)
- October 2009 (5)
- 30: A Case of the Human Condition: Help Us Choose Our Christmas Card Photo (3)
- 23: A Case of the Human Condition: You Can’t Go Home Again . . . Oh, But You Can (0)
- 16: A Case of the Human Condition: Hanging Out in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (0)
- 09: A Case of the Human Condition: Walking the Walker in Minneapolis (0)
- 02: A Case of the Human Condition: Living the Good Life — In Minneapolis (0)
- September 2009 (9)
- 25: Book Openers: Want to Shock Your Atheist Family? Convert to Christianity (0)
- 20: A Case of the Human Condition: I’ve Got One — And So Does My Mom (0)
- 14: Do Books Have Rights? This One Didn’t. I Threw It in the Trash. (0)
- 11: John Shelby Spong: Christianity (Some of It) Is Bunk (0)
- 07: GodsBigBlog: I’m Off to a Religion Newswriters Conference (0)
- 07: Huston Smith at 90 – Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim . . . Christian (1)
- 04: Scrubbing the Floor With My Daughter Cinderella (0)
- 03: GodsBigBlog: Does a Teacher Have the Right to Wear a Muslim Headscarf? A Nun’s Habit? A Sikh’s Turban? Not in Every State (0)
- 03: GodsBigBlog: Hunger in America — It’s Real (1)
- August 2009 (11)
- 31: A Case of the Human Condition: Flowers Bursting From the Dirt — How Do They Do It? (0)
- 28: A Generation of Preschoolers Trapped in Their Yards (2)
- 24: A Case of the Human Condition: In Your Face Orchids (0)
- 21: Mad Men Exposes the ’60s Girdle — But Will She Get It Off in Time? (1)
- 21: A Case of the Human Condition: He Never Called Me Back . . . Why? (4)
- 17: A Case of the Human Condition: More Sunset Drama Over Lake Michigan (0)
- 15: A Case of the Human Condition: Sunset Over Lake Michigan (0)
- 14: The Writing Room: Ah, the Colon, That Most Majestic of Punctuation Marks . . . (0)
- 10: The Writing Room: If It’s Religious, Can It Be Art? (0)
- 07: More Thoughts — on Sex — From/To/About Lauren Winner (0)
- 03: Writing Room: A Week With Lauren Winner — Of “Girl (Woman) Meets God” (4)
- July 2009 (12)
- 31: Book Openers: Jon Krakauer — A Macho Writer Who Hooks Me in Every Time (0)
- 27: Why Can’t a Dad Be More Like a Mom? . . . Do We Really Want Them To Be? (2)
- 24: Squeak Carnwath — A (Female) Painter (1)
- 20: The Scottville, Michigan, High School Football Team — 1929 (2)
- 20: Book Openers: I Still Haven’t Figured Out How to Pray — But I’m in Good Company (2)
- 17: A Case of the Human Condition: I’m a Woman with a — Sprawling — Past (2)
- 13: Book Openers: Gary Laderman — Holy Super Bowl, Holy Bambi, Holy Michael Jackson (0)
- 10: Shepherd Bliss and Men’s Secrets — No Women Allowed (5)
- 07: God’s Big Blog: Hindus Offended by Burger King Ad (0)
- 06: GodsBigBlog: OK, What’s God’s Big Blog?
- 04: A Case of the Human Condition: It’s the Fourth of July! (0)
- 03: What to Do With Those Ugly Snapdragons Now That They’re (Almost) Dead? (0)
- June 2009 (16)
- 30: GodsBigBlog: Will Obama Meet with Muslims This Weekend? (0)
- 30: GodsBigBlog: Hindus in America (0)
- 29: A Case of the Human Condition: I Did It — I Offed Those Frightful Snapdragons (0)
- 26: A Case of the Human Condition: I Want to Kill My Snapdragons (9)
- 23: Book Openers: Barack Obama — How He Got So Smart (2)
- 22: The Rhetorician in the White House — Or, How I Learned to Love the Passive Voice (0)
- 19: In the Garden With the Grammar Geek: Is It Ever OK to Use the Passive Voice? (2)
- 15: Why Meditate — When I Could Be Sweeping the Garage? (3)
- 14: GodsBigBlog: What Non-Believers Think of Obama (0)
- 12: A Case of the Human Condition: Early Late Youth Gives Way to Middle Middle Age (2)
- 08: A Case of the Human Condition: Swing, Lindy, Fast Dancing — My Kind of Crazy (2)
- 05: Why Pray? — Some Thoughts from Karen Armstrong (1)
- 04: A Case of the Human Condition: What Happens when You’re Young, Beautiful — and American — in England (0)
- 02: A Case of the Human Condition: Long-Distance Mothering (0)
- 02: A Case of the Human Condition: Peter Has Appendicitis in Minnesota — How Do I Mother Him from California? (2)
- 01: The Writing Room: Splitting the Infinitive — How to Boldy Go There (0)
- May 2009 (12)
- 29: A Case of the Human Condition: Would My Husband Like to Add My Name to His? (12)
- 25: What’s Rhetoric? Let My Two-Year-Old Enlighten You (0)
- 22: A Case of the Human Condition: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and the Indian I Wanted to Be (0)
- 18: A Case of the Human Condition: When a Young Mother Dies (2)
- 15: A Case of the Human Condition: The Day She Popped the Question (7)
- 12: Brutality Begets Brutality, That’s Why Torture is Not OK — An American POW’s Story (1)
- 11: The Writing Room: Writer’s Block and the Toxic Reader (0)
- 10: The Writing Room: Writing About Your Mother? — Words of Caution from Lori Gottlieb (0)
- 08: A Case of the Human Condition: Death is the Only Guarantee (0)
- 06: GodsBigBlog: Kids and Money — Saving It, Spending It, Sharing It (0)
- 04: GodsBigBlog: Dancer Savitri Hari — God in the Lowly Things (0)
- 01: The Writing Room: To Niche or Not to Niche? (2)
- April 2009 (7)
- 27: A Case of the Human Condition: Feminine, Feminist Pink (0)
- 20: A Case of the Human Condition: When Your Six-Year-Old Wants to Talk Money (8)
- 17: Writing Room: The Punch Line Always Goes Last (0)
- 13: A Case of the Human Condition: Beauty — What to Do About It (0)
- 10: GodsBigBlog: Native American Tori Isner — Want to Find Holy? Go Look at a Rock (2)
- 06: Book Openers: Simone Weil on Prayer — First, Pay Attention (0)
- 03: The Writing Room: Is Less More? Or Is More More? (2)
- March 2009 (13)
- 30: The Writing Room: Two Must-Have Craft Journals for the Literary Writer (0)
- 27: Book Openers: Green for God (0)
- 23: A Case of the Human Condition: A Mother Who Prevailed at Auschwitz (0)
- 20: Writing Room: Ending Paragraphs and Sentences with a Bang (1)
- 16: A Case of the Human Condition: Choose Me, Please! (0)
- 13: Book Openers: The Emerging, Emergent Church — What’s Up Next for Christianity? (0)
- 11: GodsBigBlog: John Donne — A Seventeenth Century Priest and Poet Explodes into the Twenty-First Century (0)
- 09: A Case of the Human Condition: My Mother’s Magical Babushka (0)
- 06: Book Openers: An American Attorney Looks at Islamic Law (3)
- 05: A Case of the Human Condition: Banning Barbie in West Virginia (2)
- 02: A Case of the Human Condition: How Do You Play With a Barbie Doll? (2)
- 01: A Case of the Human Condition: James Dean’s Last Day — Video with CHP Officers on the Scene (1)
- 01: A Case of the Human Condition: Even Barbie Has to Turn Fifty Sometime (0)
- February 2009 (6)
- 27: GodsBigsBlog: Geoff Machin — We Go Looking for God, When We Could Be Having a Beer (0)
- 26: A Case of the Human Condition: The Day James Dean Died — The Eyewitnesses to Speak on February 28 (2)
- 26: Writing Room: Composer John Adams — There Are Lots of Ways to Be Creative, What’s Yours? (0)
- 25: A Case of the Human Condition: Life — How Much Is Enough? (1)
- 24: My Rocky Spiritual Journey: Sister Barbara Hazzard — How to Pray Without Words (5)
- 23: A Case of the Human Condition: How Selective Service Made a Man of My Son — Without Even Trying (1)
