Feechie of the Week: Jake
For this week’s FotW we have to go way back into the archives, to the man who inspired Dobro Turtlebane. When I was a graduate student at Vanderbilt, I went […]
Audience Participation Friday: Summer Movies
My wife and I are going to be sans children next week, and we aim to go to the movies. We’re definitely going to see Tree of Life, which has […]
Little Flannery O’Connor on Film
Flannery O’Connor’s first brush with fame came when she was five years old. She had a chicken that could walk backwards, and somehow the people at Pathé News—makers of newsreels […]
RedeemedReader.com: An Interview
Redeemed Reader is a great resource for parents looking for excellent books for their children to read. Its proprietors are Janie Cheaney, whom you may know from World magazine, and […]
Audience Participation Friday: Stories About Grace
I was at a women’s book group earlier this week and the the conversation turned to stories about grace. (Did you know The Charlatan’s Boy is appropriate for women’s book groups? It […]
Wee Feechie on Film
Becca, a regular here at Jonathan-Rogers.com, is not just a poet and haikuist. She is also a filmmaker. Here’s how she and her kids spent a perfectly good summer day. […]
The End of the Story
Readers at The Rabbit Room have been discussing the movie Super 8 the last few days, and the subject of botched third acts came up. In the comments, Russ Ramsey […]
Audience Participation Friday: Feechie Love Poetry
This blog is getting eco-friendlier and eco-friendlier. No longer content to recycle my own content, I’m now recycling other people’s content from five years ago. I hope Wendell Berry is […]
Super Spider Powers
“I don’t think it will really work. Do you really think it will work?” If Mark heard me, nothing in his demeanor showed it. He knew it would work. I […]
A Prayer for Happy Meetings
Every morning for many years, Flannery O’Connor prayed this “Prayer to St. Raphael, Angel of Happy Meetings”: O Raphael, lead us toward those we are waiting for, those who are […]
Audience Participation Friday: Fun with Google Translate
You may already be familiar with Mark Twain’s dodge whereby he found a French translation of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and re-translated it back into English. It’s […]