by Debra Darvick | Jul 13, 2014 | Bookshelf, Prayerlooms, Read the Spirit
Brother, courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply. Thomas Merton The first three years of my son’s life, I kept a daily journal. Unbelievable, right? Through diapers and colic, first teeth and first words, I made time to record the wonder of our...
by Debra Darvick | Jun 16, 2014 | Bookshelf
REVIEW: ‘The Invention of wings’ I didn’t realize when I checked out these two books from the library how both plots focus on the theme of captivity and what it takes to be freed. Sue Monk Kidd’s latest—The Invention of Wings—is a novelized...
by Debra Darvick | Dec 2, 2013 | Bookshelf, Read the Spirit
Comic books were anathema in my house when I was a child. My mother sniffed at them so sniffily that whenever I bought an Archie comic book, sneaking it into my room like the contraband it was, guilt trumped pleasure every time. Only one comic strip was lauded in...
by Debra Darvick | Nov 28, 2013 | Bookshelf, Musings, Read the Spirit
Cutting this week’s His Lens/My Pen monthly post short in honor of a man I interviewed for This Jewish Life. I just read that Harold Berry has died.. That makes three now who shared a cherished moment of their lives with me, and are no longer of this earth. Mr....
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...
