Month: March 2019

Culture, Current Events, Holidays, Identity, social psychology, Uncategorized

Who Was Saint Patrick… and What About Those Snakes?

Irish culture has brought us a surfeit of plenty from language and music to art and cultural tradition. The United States has benefited more than most as the default destination for millions of Irish fleeing starvation, strife and the blasted English in the 19th and early 20th centuries. On St. Patrick’s Day, we’re all a little bit Irish. Even those of us, like myself, without … Continue reading Who Was Saint Patrick… and What About Those Snakes?

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Culture, Family, fiction, Mothers, Personal Growth, reading

Unsheltered: A Slog Through the Weeds, But Still Worth the Read

First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival. Barbara Kingsolver is a Grande Dame of the dual-narrative novel. Unsheltered, published in 2018, moves fluidly from the 1870s to present day and then returns, before diving again. Kingsolver draws parallels between these two eras, their political and social climates and their hostility toward … Continue reading Unsheltered: A Slog Through the Weeds, But Still Worth the Read

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