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Jill Elizabeth posted this on June 17th, 2011 For Mother’s Day, I featured an ode. Today, to conclude my Father’s Day trilogy (which started here), I’m going with a sestina. Yes, a sestina. What on earth is a sestina, you ask? Well, gentle reader, I shall enlighten you in as comprehensible a way as possible. A sestina is a thirty-nine line poem with […]
Jill Elizabeth posted this on June 16th, 2011 So, like everyone else I know, I never seem to have enough time to read anymore. This is annoying for many reasons, primarily because it means that the “to be read” pile continues to grow on what feels like an exponential scale. But also because of my reading challenges – one external and one internal. […]
Jill Elizabeth posted this on June 15th, 2011 This story owes its origins to a very lovely eulogy I heard at a funeral recently. The concept of “the dash” was the lynchpin of the priest’s oratory celebrating the life of the recently deceased. It struck me as a beautifully simple yet still thought-provoking way to think about the meaning of a life. I […]
Jill Elizabeth posted this on June 14th, 2011 So two weeks ago, I featured a Book Review Tuesday post composed of random reviews from some of the books I have read this year. They were utterly non-thematic, just a sample of the kinds of things I read regularly, designed to share my range and show you that I don’t love everything I read. […]
Jill Elizabeth posted this on June 13th, 2011
So, last week I gave you an homage to bad dads, as my prelude to Father’s Day. Today, I’m giving you the counterpoint: books about great dads (and later this week I will conclude the trilogy with a little poetry, so check back!). If you didn’t catch the reference in today’s title, it’s to a […]
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