Tag: Flannery O’Connor

• Let Me See–A Baccalaureate Sermon

  What follows is my Baccalaureate sermon delivered to Monmouth College’s graduating class on May 14th, 2016.  It is based on Mark 10: 46-52.   It’s funny, I find myself getting increasingly sentimental at graduation. Every year I am up on that Commencement platform crying over the cheesiest things. Like, tomorrow, you girls will walk across the […]

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  May 15, 2016

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  Art, baccalaureate, Bartimaeus, Class of 2016, Flannery O’Connor, I Once Was Blind but Now I See, Mark 10: 46-52, Monmouth College, preaching, Sermon, We have to see the world as it is before we can turn it into art

• Facing Change

  I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing. Flannery O’Connor I am immensely grateful for my life. My husband is a talented, intelligent man who makes me laugh and is committed to growing with me in our relationship. I have two beautiful, healthy children who inspire me daily with their unbridled […]

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  April 22, 2016

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  aging, Change, children, Facing Change, Flannery O’Connor, Growing Older, Marriage, Mother, Next Day, parenting

• Writing Misery Loves Company

  As a deadline looms on a new project, I have reached the end of the writing honeymoon  when the fun of creating turns into the slog of hard, hard work.  It is a miserable place to be–a place where self-doubt and the fear of inadequacy reign.  So tonight I have gone in search of some […]

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  September 25, 2015

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  Annie Dillard, Flannery O’Connor, Mary Karr, writing, Writing block

• Simile Love

  Sim•Ÿi•Ÿle Noun A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox). I’ve fallen in love with the simile. A friend suggested I use one in an article I […]

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  August 1, 2014

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  figure of speech, Flannery O’Connor, reading, simile, writing