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Laurie Buchanan: Fast-Paced with Plot Twists

Laurie Buchanan: Fast-Paced with Plot Twists

by MarianBeaman | May 25, 2022 | blog, book review, Coming of Age, Education, Literature, Quotations, Uncategorized

    Laurie, A Model of Re-invention Laurie left home as a young teen without completing high school, but then zoomed to her GED and later to a notable PhD. She has reinvented herself more than once during her lifetime. To date, she has authored four books,...
Mr. Mitch Finds Chika: A True Story

Mr. Mitch Finds Chika: A True Story

by MarianBeaman | Apr 27, 2022 | blog, book review, Coming of Age, Literature, meditation, Memory, Quotations

        My Review “Mister Mitch?,” Chika asks. ”Why didn’t you have babies?” I pause. “What do you mean?” “You said people brought you their babies, but you and Miss Janine didn’t have babies.” I’m writing your story, Chika. What does that have to...
Living on God’s Gifted Time: A Mennonite Pastor Speaks

Living on God’s Gifted Time: A Mennonite Pastor Speaks

by MarianBeaman | Mar 23, 2022 | blog, book review, Literature, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, popular culture, Quotations, Uncategorized

Sociology professor receives a dire diagnosis He is stopped in his tracks He is also a Mennonite pastor How can he find a path forward?   These four lines describe pastor and professor Conrad Kanagy, a Mennonite author who lives with his family in my childhood...
Secrets of My 9-Year Blogging Life

Secrets of My 9-Year Blogging Life

by MarianBeaman | Feb 23, 2022 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Coming of Age, Literature, popular culture, Quotations, Reflection, Uncategorized

  The cartoon is right! I have been blogging nigh onto nine years. Also right: My hair is often a mess when I blog. (I don’t see myself at the computer, so I have to trust the artist’s rendering here.)   Blogging is fun for me. I don’t hate blogging, as the...
February Photos with Tulips and Chimney Smoke

February Photos with Tulips and Chimney Smoke

by MarianBeaman | Feb 16, 2022 | blog, Gratitude, Literature, Memory, popular culture, Quotations, Reflection

Find the Colors in this Urban Afternoon Reflection   February A chimney, breathing a little smoke. The sun, I can’t see making a bit of pink I can’t quite see in the blue. The pink of five tulips at five p.m. on the day before March first. The green...
Stop, Look, and Listen with a Lego Figure: Snowy Woods at Dusk

Stop, Look, and Listen with a Lego Figure: Snowy Woods at Dusk

by MarianBeaman | Feb 2, 2022 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Literature, Neighborhood / Environment, Quotations, Reflection, Uncategorized

If you arrived here harried and harangued, or feeling hollow. . . .   YOU ARE INVITED TO SLOW DOWN AND STOP. . . . . . to contemplate Frost’s Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening. This rendition features a Lego character with a German-speaking narrator:  ...
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