Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian
A Conservative Lesbian
Via my dear friend, Jenny, The Bloggess, a couple of days ago I found the blog of a young lesbian who is in seminary on the ordination track to be a Lutheran minister — thus the name of her blog, Emm in Sem: Gay marriage isn’t revolutionary. It’s just the next step in marriage’s evolution. …
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Update, 11/2/10, Tues.: Hot Air is tracking the turnout. Michelle Malkin is live-blogging with excellent coverage of race results and this helpful interactive map of race results. The Anchoress is live-blogging. Prof. William Jacobson is live-blogging at Legal Insurrection. Update, 11/2/10, Tues, 10:34 EDT: Fox News just called Maryland’s first Congressional district for the Republican …
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Yesterday I was feeling well enough to spend the day catching up on chores — doing dishes, laundry, cleaning litterboxes. I had the TV on for company and the commercials for Katherine Heigl’s new movie, “Life As We Know It,” had the most piercingly beautiful popular song that I just had to take a break …
Click for a profound and touching video correlating the lyrics of “What Sarah Said” by the indie rock group, Death Cab for Cutie, with the experience of a person at the very end of life made by a palliative care doctor. It will make you a better, stronger and more courageous person. Love is the …
Maggie was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday, Aug. 31, and is being cared for at the home of one of her brothers in Kentucky. The chemotherapy shrank the tumor from the size of a cantaloupe to the size of a baseball in just a few days. Her doctor was happy with her progress. …
Lyrics to ‘Barcarolle,’ sung by mezzo Elina Garanca and soprano Anna Netrebko, from the third act of The Tales of Hoffman by Offenbach (full libretto in French with English translation here): Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour Ô belle nuit d’amour! Le temps fuit et sans …
Well, after all, the bagpipes ARE a double reed instrument, like the bassoon, which I play. The first bagpipes I heard in person wafted over the small campus of Guilford College, in Greensboro, North Carolina, where I spent my summers from 1968-70 when I was in high school, attending the Eastern Music Festival, which is …
Slow version: Fast version: As I noted in an earlier post, mezzo soprano Elina Garanca sang Carmen in the Metropolitan Opera’s January 2010 production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, which I saw in May on PBS. I love the intelligence, humor and playfulness that Ms. Garanca brings to Carmen, that her Carmen is a woman of …
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Mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as Carmen sings the “Habanera.” On Sunday (May 16, 2010) I happened on PBS’s series, “Great Performances at the Met,” featuring the January 2010 production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen. I haven’t seen many productions of Carmen, but I have the feeling that this is one of the best of all time because …
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Fat is a feminist issue. If you don’t understand that, you can’t call yourself a feminist. Because I say so. Yes, I do so, too, have that power. I love it that People Magazine included Gabourey Sidibe in its list of the “100 Most Beautiful People of 2010.” I don’t believe they are holding her …
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