Love is the most excellent way

My friend Jim Henderson’s latest book, The Resignation of Eve, is being published in a few days. It’s a book about women’s responses to how they’re treated in church. It mostly consists of interviews with or stories of women who have resigned themselves to their church situation (some of them are fine with it), or resigned from church, or re-signed up in a situation where [more]

Yesterday was Ben’s first day at Stanford. I flew out with him to help him carry his luggage and pick up some essentials (like bedding) near campus. We left home for the airport at 4am, did the shopping and got to Ben’s dorm at around 12pm. I had to leave a couple of hours later because I wanted to get home by midnight. But I [more]

Ben and Darcy’s Graduation Recital was last weekend. It was mostly violin and viola but Ben also played a short piano piece – Intermezzo by Brahms, Op. 118 no. 2. Videos of Ben and Darcy’s finale, Passacaglia on a Theme of Handel by Halvorsen, and the Brahms Intermezzo are below (click on them to play). Download Handel/Halvorsen Download Brahms

At Saturday’s violin recital, Esther played the third movement of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no. 1 and Ben and Darcy gave a graduation performance, playing Brahms, Franck and Handel/Halvorsen together. Ben and Darcy will be giving a repeat graduation performance at 2 pm May 22nd at Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park. The video of Esther and a video clip from Ben and Darcy playing Handel/Halvorsen [more]