by Debra Darvick | Sep 30, 2013 | His Lens/My Pen, Read the Spirit
This is the second in a monthly series of a new feature called His Lens/My Pen, a collaboration with my husband. He’s the one with the camera; I’m the one with the pen as it were. Ergo His Lens/My Pen. Continuing with the bird theme from last month’s...
by Debra Darvick | Sep 23, 2013 | Musings, Read the Spirit
I was never one of those kids who played house all the time. I didn’t have rafts of baby dolls whom I fed little plastic bottles filled with pretend milk before putting them to bed in shoebox cribs lined with fabric scraps borrowed from my mother’s sewing...
by Debra Darvick | Sep 11, 2013 | Bookshelf
Will Schwalbe has written a beautiful book. When his mother, Mary Anne Schwalbe, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he accompanied her to her treatments. Over the course of those long afternoons in Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s waiting rooms and treatment rooms,...
by Debra Darvick | Sep 9, 2013 | Bookshelf
Merely typing these three words—The Colored Car—makes me cringe. Compressed into those four syllables is an arc of our country’s history run through with inhumanity, pain, bigotry, humiliation. It is an apt title, the only title really, for Jean Alicia...
by Debra Darvick | Sep 1, 2013 | Bookshelf, Read the Spirit
With Rosh Hashana arriving Wednesday night, and being one of the People of the Book, I thought that it would be good to begin the new year 5774 with three book reviews. Come back next Monday and Wednesday for two more. When I received a review copy of With a Mighty...
