Essay: I found God in the pain of my brother’s suicide
I found God in the pain of my brother’s suicide. I don’t want to tell this story again — of my brother David, wracked with pain, dragging himself out [...]
Book review: “An Unsuitable Job for a Woman” by P.D. James
In 1972, when P.D. James published An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, she’d been a novelist for just a decade. Her first four books were centered on Adam Dalgleish, a [...]
Photos: A neighborhood walk, 4.16.20
Building ornamentation caught my eye today, and one little city emblem: Patrick T. Reardon 4.16.20
Book review: “The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography” by Carlos Eire
Saint Teresa of Avila was a woman of 16th century Spain, a nun mystic experienced in the bliss and pain of religious ecstasy but also nun living under the power [...]
Poem: Ecclesiastes Road
Ecclesiastes Road By Patrick T. Reardon See and see: Each time passes. Journey is taken. River runs. Green brittles. Tall withers. Sun is blind. Blood dries to grit. [...]
Essay: Calvary Cemetery, 4.10.20
One of the guys from basketball at the Levy Senior Center in Evanston is recovering, apparently well, from the coronavirus. But he’s been stuck in a motel for weeks. [...]
Book review: “The Bear” by Andrew Krivak
The girl walks down to the lake to the spot where she and her father fish. A goose and gander and five goslings are there, making a home for the [...]
Poem: Eternal
Eternal By Patrick T. Reardon Eternal, puzzle us, puzzle us clockwork apart and put us back together, create/re-create, Eternal, cycle us and puzzle us to ourselves, [...]
Essay: Calvary Cemetery, 4.7.20
The lakefront parks are closed, as are all the other city parks. Walking on the sidewalks of Edgewater — normally an invigorating exercise — is weird. I find myself scanning [...]
Book review: “Elle” by Douglas Glover
The story of French noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval has been told and retold over the past 150 years in popular entertainment — several historical novels, poems, a [...]