The Memorial Coatroom Literary Society Reads Colette

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July 9th, 2011

Last month, the Memorial Coatroom Literary Society met to discuss Colette’s “The Vagabond” (1910). By an odd chance (or inclination?) we chose yet another book translated from French, written by a famous woman author. None of us had read any Colette, though Courtney directed a play about Colette’s stint as a stage performer, so we [...]

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Haiku

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June 24th, 2011

Station wagon, you rolling monument to Time Inescapable

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Little Did She Know…

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May 17th, 2011

Late at night, Friday April 15, I wrote yet another post about the many businesses in my adopted neighborhood of Lower Queen Anne that were closing their doors. What I could never have predicted, is that only 12 hours later, I would receive notice that the place where I’ve worked since 2006, the entire reason [...]

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Block-Busted

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April 16th, 2011

Only a few weeks ago, I stepped out of the Closing Sale of the Lower Queen Anne Blockbuster holding the copy of Jane Campion’s Bright Star I’d just purchased for $5.99, and found myself facing the closed movie theater across the street where I had seen the film one year ago. Both businesses now bereft [...]

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Jet Bike Steve, Jimmy Fallon and Other Signs of our Changing Textual Identites

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October 7th, 2010

In “Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task” today at MHGS, I got to lecture on some questions that have been buzzing in my brain for quite some time now. I am obsessively curious about and amazed by the changing role of text and author in a culture where, due to blogs and social media, we are [...]

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Watching “The West Wing” For The First Time Haiku

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September 27th, 2010

Proof that I’m in my 30′s: Timothy Busfield kinda turns me on.

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Reading & Writing as Heroic Acts: The Heroine’s Bookshelf

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August 5th, 2010

The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder by Erin Blakemore My rating: 5 of 5 stars Sometimes you love a book not so much for the new things it brings you, but for how it names what you’ve always known. Such is The Heroine’s Bookshelf. By profiling twelve of the [...]

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William Emmert On My Wall

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July 22nd, 2010

While at MHGS, I spent three years on Student Leadership. Part of what my particular team (Sacred Space) did was to curate the two art galleries in our building. The main floor gallery is for local artists and the upstairs gallery is for artists from the MHGS student body. For my final summer as a [...]

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Kj’s Corner: Real Presences & Adaptation

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June 19th, 2010

This summer I had the opportunity to serve as research assistant to Dr. Chelle Stearns for her course on “Theology & the Artistic Impulse.” This meant I got to give two lectures on the class material. (At MHGS we don’t use student TA’s due to dual relationship concerns- so research assistant is a kind of [...]

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Of Mice and Meals

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May 7th, 2010

Redwall by Brian Jacques My rating: 3 of 5 stars Continuing in my process of reading books for young people that I neither read nor heard of as a young person, I’ve started the Redwall series. Actually, my friend Tucker holds Mossflower as one of the most influential books in his life, and I want [...]

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