Microcosm

I went to see “Cabaret” last week, and I am still worried about Herr Schultz. He’s the Jewish character who thinks the Nazi thing will blow over. The people who put on the Holocaust educators’ seminar I attended last summer were some of the smartest, kindest people I’ve ever met. The studies themselves were a […]

Warm Cookie Wednesday

I went home after Ash Wednesday service and baked chocolate-chip cookies. They gooed and fell apart as I was eating them. They were still hot. I used to feel reverent abstaining from pleasures for Lent. This year I felt reverent eating chocolate. I like to get into complicated political and religious discussions. In such a […]

Commandments

I make my students recite the Ten Commandments. In public school. You see, there’s this part in The Crucible where the main characters are interrogated about their Christian credentials, and naming the commandments is one of the tests. Some classes get eight commandments. One only got six. We’ve never gotten all ten. So I tell […]

Lost & Found

Since I go to church every Sunday like a goody-two-shoes, people often express their God-fearing to me. Like, oh, God must be mad at me. I never do any religious stuff! Actually, I don’t have insurance against trouble by going to church. It might mean I am more of a mess, that I feel I […]