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Today’s Newspaper Article by Me: Why Christian Science Got into Journalism
By Polly Castor on January 21, 2017Read moreAssigned with the day after the inauguration and the day of the Women's March on Washington, this is...
20Freedom Comes with Responsibility (poem by Jena Schwartz)
By Polly Castor on January 20, 2017Read moreFreedom comes with responsibility. My life is bound up with your life. My heart is bound up with your heart. My “my”...
Book Review: My Grandmother Told Me To Tell You She’s Sorry
By Polly Castor on January 19, 2017Read moreThis book is as different and wonderful as the exceptional almost-eight-year-old-girl and her chaotic, cantankerous, superhero of a...
Featured Artist: Randy Hayashi
By Polly Castor on January 18, 2017Read moreI love these paintings done in acrylic by Randy Hayashi largely because I adore the subject matter. They are...
Driving our Youngest Back to College
By Polly Castor on January 17, 2017Read moreWe had a whopping, great conversation the whole way, and I can’t be grateful enough that we can talk...
Poem by Mary Oliver: Invitation
By Polly Castor on January 16, 2017Read moreBelieve us, they say, it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the...
Famous Emmet Fox Quotes
By Polly Castor on January 15, 2017Read more"Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate...
Recipe: Grilled Cheese with Red Raspberry Cabbage
By Polly Castor on January 14, 2017Read moreThis is your basic grilled cheese filled with red cabbage sautéed in raspberry jam. It made instant converts of...
Three New Monoprint Collages
By Polly Castor on January 13, 2017Read moreI was glad to get back to making some artwork. I have all sorts of ideas, but what I...
Patient People Dare
By Polly Castor on January 12, 2017Read morePatient living means to live actively in the present and wait there. That, indeed, is a very radical stance...
Book Review: Interrupted
By Polly Castor on January 11, 2017Read moreThis fresh book is thankfully neither self-satisfied nor the last word, but the beginning of a discussion on what...
Featured Artist: Siri Beckman
By Polly Castor on January 10, 2017Read moreI have long admired the amazing printmaking done by Siri Beckman. Her prints have fascinated me every time I...