“Why would you want to go somewhere where they just want to tell you what to do?” A friend of a friend’s husband asked this, when his wife was thinking about attending church with their children. My friend, a churchgoer with a rebel soul, happened to be there. She came back with: “Mark, you know […]
Archives for August 2012
Two Europeans, One Pakistan Day, and Zero Samosas 
August 26, 2012 by
In 2011, 8000 people came to the Pakistani Independence Day celebration in Bolingbrook. This year, I wanted to go check it out, too. The founder, Talat Rashid, believes it’s the oldest continuous celebration in the Midwest, and maybe the whole country. My friend Monica was in town and, since she’s always game for international foods […]
Take 12 – August 
August 21, 2012 by
Not all taken on August 12, but thereabouts… (“Take 12” is a project to take 12 pictures of your daily life on the twelfth of each month in 2012). My desk, with calendars, church directory, thank you notes, a Sunday bulletin, cup from Subway, to do list, and various: The attendance count sheets we […]
Little Suburb on the Prairie
August 8, 2012 by
Laura said to Mary, “This prairie is like an enormous meadow, stretching far away in every direction, to the very edge of the world.” The endless waves of flowery grasses under the cloudless sky gave her a queer feeling. She could not say how she felt. All of them in the wagon, and the wagon and […]
