As the family's resident expert baker, Irene insisted on making her own cake It tastes even better than it looks--the butter cream and the juice from the sliced strawberries soak into the cake to produce a luscious result. She gives detailed … [Continue reading]
On Them All Be Peace: The Dragon Nuns and Teachers of my Youth
“Berlin seemed far away, but that was an illusion; for years I would pick fragments of it from my skin as though I had wallowed among shards of broken glass:” the historian Peter Gay writes about his boyhood growing up Jewish in Nazi Germany. … [Continue reading]
In which I am Learning to Master Anger
(Reuters/Mike Stone) 14 years ago, I was furious with my husband Roy for some just-discovered crime or misdemeanour, and since he was teaching at the moment (in those pre-mobile phone days), and I couldn’t call him, I called our pastor. (No, I … [Continue reading]
10 Lessons from Heartbreak Time and Death and Resurrection in Writing my Memoir (Part I)
So, around 1987, when I was reading English at Somerville College, Oxford, Salman Rushdie read from Midnight’s Children at the Oxford University Majlis, the Indian society. And I stay up all night reading Midnight’s Children, transfixed. At least 95% … [Continue reading]
Spring at Waterperry Gardens, Oxford: Oxfordshire Walks
(Post by Roy Mathias) The Oxfordshire village of Waterperry is home to Rowan Atkinson and the 8 acre Waterperry gardens. We visited the latter. New leaves with rain from earlier in the day: Waterperry holds the national collection of … [Continue reading]
No Attempt to Attain Something Beautiful is Ever Lost
Helen Keller “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. But, nevertheless, it seemed to me sometimes that I could never use my speech-wings as God intended I should use them; there were so many difficulties in the way, so … [Continue reading]
The Cwmbran Outpouring: The 2013 Welsh Revival, A Personal Report
http://youtu.be/vLs6Kl3wgtk Last summer at RiverCamp, Heidi Baker said, casually, “Revival is coming to the UK. You know that, don’t you? Everyone knows that.” And something like a collective sigh-- or sneer!--shivered through the audience. For in … [Continue reading]
“For the Want of a Pencil” Scott Berry on his work in the Philippines
I was ankle deep in mud, trying to brush away disease-carrying mosquitoes that seemed to be fascinated with my exposed legs, arms and face. I had a 30 pound concrete construction block in each hand, which made swatting at nasty bugs just a little … [Continue reading]
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