by Toni McNaron | Sep 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
In Twelve Step programs, the second step reads “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” As I watch images from the recent weekend’s NFL footballs games, this step keeps going through my mind. All those...
by Toni McNaron | Sep 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Kate Millett, pioneering voice about the interplay of sexism and women’s sexuality, died this week from cardiac arrest. Her landmark book, Sexual Politics, was published in 1969 to some rave reviews, some loud denunciations, and much thanks from women trying to...
by Toni McNaron | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
For many years, I’ve said, half in jest and entirely in earnest, “When I grow up, I want to write poetry.” And I’ve made attempts down through the years. There’s even a fairly good-sized blue file labeled “My Poems” that I...
by Toni McNaron | Aug 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
In 2004, I went with my then-partner on an Alaskan adventure. Our group numbered only about fourteen and the crew came to five, so we were in a boat, not a ship. Because of the small size of our vessel, we could go into secluded and special areas to watch black...
by Toni McNaron | May 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
When I was the age to get a classic red Radio Flyer wagon (1944), the country was at war, so all metal was being used to make ships and tanks and the like. By the time civilians could once again purchase wagons for their children, I was too old to have one. To ease my...
by Toni McNaron | Mar 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
As we in the congregation at my church leave our pews to process up to take communion, we sing a simple set of words about what we hope will happen as we receive the host and (if chosen) wine. Recently, those words were these: “Take, oh take me as I am,/Summon...
