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My Cracked Pot Life

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. ~E.B. White

Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

Reading List for the week of August 16-22

Monday, August 16th, 2010

I think the library will hunt me down if I fail to return these books in the next week. I’m pretty sure I’ve maxed out how many times I can renew these titles.

It isn’t that I’m a lazy reader, it is that I am a disorganized reader-and I cannot help myself-I want to read everything…when this couples with daily life distractions-it means-I fall behind.

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians by Lynn H. Cohick

–This book attempts to depict the life activities of the average “everywoman” during the GrecoRoman period and time of the early Church.

I’ve found it balanced and not laced with intense feminism-it is more historical in nature.

Biblical Literacy by Rabbi Telushkin

–I’ve enjoyed this book because, like many of you, I find the OT dreadfully boring. Rabbi Telushkin humanizes OT characters and interprets events in traditional Jewish context-a context that I find fresh and appealing in comparison to my narrow-minded Southern protestant background (Though I was not religious-I was born into a religious family/society.).

I’m giving myself one week to complete these texts.  It’s that-or return them-and check them out again-which-I really don’t want to do.

Have a happy reading week!

Welcome To My Cracked Pot Life

Friday, August 6th, 2010

I generally approach life with humor-and this blog will be a place for me to laugh, share with friends, feature the art and writing of friends and family-a place to unwind…

I hope you will return and chat with me about anything and everything from motherhood to books to faith to painting old furniture.

Poet Verse, my old poetry blog, will be arriving soon via the tab in the upper right column. I was going to delete the site, but after reviewing posts that go back two years-I think it would be sad to erase such a fine collection of personal and professional writings. If you are interested in submitting your poetry for feature on Poet Verse, I will soon be accepting submissions.

Have a fabulous weekend-and thanks for reading!!