“You two examining how her European ancestors decimated yours? … Fantastic!”
All posts for the month January, 2010
Global education (Candy Store, part II)
Posted by bethmacy on January 29, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/01/29/the-candy-store-part-ii/
Kid in a brain-candy store
Except for the weather, being here is like getting a massage: It’s incredible, but there’s always this nagging feeling that reality is around the corner and this too, alas, shall pass.
Posted by bethmacy on January 25, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/01/25/kid-in-a-brain-candy-store/
How to help Haiti via a Roanoke-based mission. . .
Mama V told my Roanoke Times colleague Matt Chittum this morning that at least one of her three clinics collapsed in yesterday’s earthquake. “It’s like she’s got a whole country to mother,” one doctor said.
Posted by bethmacy on January 13, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/01/13/how-to-help-haiti-via-a-roanoke-based-mission/
On silence, jumpy herons and knead-free bread
It’s holey and wondrous — perfect for the pooling of butter — not unlike ciabatta, only without a lot of effort.
Posted by bethmacy on January 11, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/01/11/on-silence-herons-and-knead-free-bread/
In praise of Evelyn Coke
She died last August due to complications from a serious bedsore, the kind she had been once so good at tending.
Posted by bethmacy on January 11, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/01/11/in-praise-of-evelyn-coke/
Another sad parting. . .
“There’ll be just one more story,” she told me. “The last one.”
Posted by bethmacy on January 8, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/01/08/another-sad-parting/
