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The Habit of Being: A Portrait of Miss Mystery and Manners
Click on the image below, “Portrait of Flannery O’Connor,” to open Laura Lasworth’s exhibit in a resizable browser. In The Other Journal exhibit “Tangled Alphabets,” León Ferrari and Mira Schendel...
View ArticleThe Bridge I Called Home: A Restoration Ministries Recovery and Relocation
Take a moment to consider the value and meaning of your name. With only transitory reflection, you may discover that your name is a multifaceted label with depth, gravity, associations, and...
View ArticleThe Truth about Public Transportation
is that it’s public, so when the young man the size and shape of Biggie Smalls squeezes into the seat next to me on the Amtrak bound for Chicago, there’s nothing I can do but bear it, try to finesse...
View ArticleCommon Ground: Symmetries of Land and Culture after Economic Change
After living on a farm in Lockport, Illinois, for seventy-three years, Harlow Cagwin sold his family land to a subdivision developer. Shortly thereafter, Amanda Grabenhofer and her family settled into...
View ArticleYou’re The Inspiration (No, no, you are!)
Religion in the news this past week? Here are the highlights: *Amish guilty of investment fraud. (Thanks Amish. The dream is over.) *Cheerleader/bodybuilder probably the next Perpetua because she...
View ArticleQuiet Storms: The Paintings of Women by Joyce Polance
The female form is hardly unexplored territory within the history of painting. Nevertheless, when a present-day artist with the sensibility, intuition, and tenderness of Joyce Polance approaches the...
View ArticleSinging with Losers: On the Athletic Failings and Musical Triumphs of the...
My first musical love was the 1984 Chicago Cubs. You may have missed their contribution to the great American songbook—they’re better known for bringing the ballclub to the postseason for the first...
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