Posts Categorized: Peace
For those of you fairly new to And So It Goes, I first discovered John McCutcheon’s song, Christmas in the Trenches, in 2013. It tells an amazing and long forgotten true story, one that I’m committed to sharing. I’ve been posting it every Christmas Eve since. I hope you’ll take the time to listen to the song and peruse… more »
Well, it happened again. I choose an important and timely topic — the importance of maintaining a healthy skepticism — but, in the course of putting the post together, I veer off into another land. Could that have been what happened to Lewis Carroll? Plans were to introduce you to my favorite British philosopher… more »
IN MEMORIAM The following is borrowed from The Poetry Foundation website. The words have been put to music in the shape note tradition, one of the pieces we sing in Continua (verses 1, 2, and 7, which I’ve put in bold. I’ve also added quotes for clarity). I wish I could add the melody for… more »
This week’s guest will be a familiar name for those who have read my book, At Home on the Kazakh Steppe. Gulzhahan Tazhitova was my counterpart while I was a Peace Corps volunteer and was instrumental in my success both living and teaching in Kazakhstan. I believe I describe her in the book as… more »
We continue our series, Seeing Ourselves Through Others’ Eyes with our guest Isabelle Winkler whom I met on the Women Writers Women’s Books FB group a few months ago, when this series was taking shape. She and I have carried on a most enjoyable email correspondence since and I’m pleased she’s agreed to participate… more »
Anna Coates and I met on social media through one of the many FB groups I belong to, We Love Memoirs. It could as easily have been Women Writers, Women’s Books. Both are great if you are a woman memoirist. And Anna is that. While her memoir is not out yet, I’ve had the privilege… more »
Ella Reznikova and I share the same monthly writer’s group here in Vermont. I am very glad for this for two reasons. Her history and knowledge of Soviet times was of great value to me during the final edits of my memoir; when Ella related enthusiastically to my Soviet-centered scenes, I knew I had captured them. But beyond my… more »
Here’s the second contribution in our ongoing series Seeing Ourselves Through Others’ Eyes. Hélène Stelian’s story raises the idea of what is often called the cultural “melting pot” that is America. A popular metaphor and one I was taught to believe in from grade school on, it holds that as new waves of immigrants reach our shores, they… more »
Finding exotic new lands and people is one of the highlights of travel. And for many, cultural difference means simply seeing how the other folks dance, eating their strange food, appreciating their architecture, and thinking how great it would be if only we would [fill in the blank] here in America. For those of you who’ve read my book… more »
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