It’s going to be October next week and I am panicking! Actually, I should be thankful. The surgery went well and my overcrowded mouth is freed of two monstrous wisdom teeth. What I feared would happen didn’t : numbness of the tongue, paralysis of the face, hallucinations,etc. None at all. Instead, there has been this [...]
Author Archive > Tricia
Even song II
The mother longs to soak in the seaweed sea, to get her toes in tangles in its jelly-soft arms . If not for the stove, warm with warming muffined pans, stewing pots, treacled puddings, she’d be there, among the periwinkles , starfished sands. Yet she sings of the future. She sings for she sees her [...]
Reflections on Writing at the end of a long, long day
I have a question. How does one go about writing Christianly? Should one go about writing Christianly and what does that mean? I did a review lately on Gene Veith’s “Reading Between the Lines”. He wrote that good Christian writing should reflect high aesthetic standards as well as sound biblical moral truths. That sounds simple [...]
Farming and Malaysia
One of my dreams is to live on a farm : extensive grounds to ramble through, hosts of animals- goats, ponies, dogs, chickens- and a 40 minute radius away from everyone else. Now, this might some both idyllic and unfriendly. But it really is not. We live in the thick of suburbia, packed with houses, [...]
Reflections
The first half of the year’s over . What a relief. Between the frantic rushing from here to there, has been snatches of academics thrown in with half-caught moments of spontaneous learning: in between waiting for traffic lights to change, in between lesson preparations and pouring over books, in between throwing food into the pan [...]
The Terrible Plague by Joy, dd9
I Joy, dd9, wrote this piece for a writing assignment early this year. I thought she had given some nifty descriptions of the situation, writing from a first person’s point of view. Well, enjoy! ” The Terrible Plague of London I wasn’t going to celebrate my birthday in 1665. My mind rang with the same [...]
