Melissa Bartell | December 2, 2009
A week or so ago, Kimberlyn sent me an essay she wrote, asking if I thought it was too long for this blog. It began like this: I spent the weekend in Glen Rose, Texas at the Fall Leadership Conference hosted by the SWUUC . I attended the “Beyond Fundraising” track, led by Wayne B. [...]
Melissa Bartell | November 17, 2009
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia Support UUCOC! Get this from Amazon.com >> Those of you who attended church on Sunday the 15th know that we had a live reading of The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, instead of a video presentation, for our dramatic moment. The author credit was accidentally left [...]
Melissa Bartell | September 18, 2009
It was the spring of 1997 and I was treating one of my dearest friends and colleague, after hours in my clinic after a long day of seeing very complicated orthopedic medicine and chronic pain patients. Ron was a 57 year old psychologist who was scheduled the following morning to have a thoracotomy performed in [...]
Melissa Bartell | August 12, 2009
Buffalo Gal Laura Pedersen Get it from Amazon.com I first heard about Laura Pedersen’s memoir Buffalo Gal when I was browsing UU World a week or so ago. I was caught by her sense of humor and the fact that she’s roughly my contemporary (five years older, but we watched the same TV shows). I [...]
Melissa Bartell | July 31, 2009
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg Available at Amazon >> This isn’t a book review. Many people stopped me after church last week to ask for the title and author of the writing book I mentioned, so I thought I’d link it here as the inaugural post for the new category “reading matters.” What’s [...]
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