by MarianBeaman | Nov 7, 2018 | blog, Coming of Age, Uncategorized
Who? What? When? Where? Your thoughts welcome . . .
by MarianBeaman | Oct 31, 2018 | blog, book review, Coming of Age, Mennonite Lore, Quotations, Uncategorized
A Real Book “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?” “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It...
by MarianBeaman | Oct 24, 2018 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Family / Nostalgia, Travel, Uncategorized
“Another anniversary. After the 50th, what’s so special about that?” Quite a lot, it turns out. Cliff and I observed another anniversary on August 5. We had just returned from a trip to Asheville this summer (where we spent our honeymoon 51 years earlier), but I...
by MarianBeaman | Oct 17, 2018 | blog, Literature, Quotations, Tips, Uncategorized
Inquiring Minds want to Know . . . Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? a book that survived my Great Book Purge of 2016, was a birthday gift from the Dean of Liberal Arts at my college in 1993. It is billed as“compulsive reading for anyone incurably curious about the...
by MarianBeaman | Oct 10, 2018 | blog, Uncategorized
This week I’m taking a blog break to enjoy fall foliage . . . I will return next week, October 17. Be well!