Author Archives: srdianne

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men / Gang aft agley, /An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain / For promis’d joy! (Robert Burns)             I could look it up but I think this is one of those … Continue reading →

Jesus claimed, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”  They kept saying: “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?”             A friend of mine who runs a business that produces rivets and related products returned recently from … Continue reading →

So I did sit and eat             In the preface to her 2008 book Sacramental Poetics Regina Mara Schwarz (scholar at Northwestern University) says, “The Eucharist has always been mysterious to me.  As a Jewish child, nothing in my tradition … Continue reading →

Seeing Beyond Appearances*             The sibling children of Kenneth Grahame’s The Golden Age, ranging in age from six to eleven, had lived among the adults of their household long enough to acquire a critical attitude toward them all.  As the … Continue reading →

Jeremiah was a bullfrog, he was good friend of mine / I never understood a single word he said . . . [Creedence Clearwater Revival] I’ve known about penknives all my life – the kind of folding knife you can … Continue reading →