Literacy Class: Learning the Language of Love
This past week, I taught my last English class for quite some time. Three years ago, I moved to my new city in the Midwest. Almost right away, I started teaching literacy to people (mostly women,...
View ArticleDr. Seuss and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
By Kathleen L. Housley I am reading a biography of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hanged in 1945 for his role in the plot to kill Hitler. Suddenly the door opens and my two-year-old...
View ArticleFrom the Engine Room, Part I: The Problem with Efficiency
By Mary Kenagy Mitchell About a year ago we at Image dragged ourselves into the twentieth century and started accepting unsolicited submissions online. We had held off partly because we were worried...
View ArticleFrom the Engine Room, Part II: Mountains of Time
By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Continued from yesterday. Up until this point, in describing what it’s like to read Image’s unsolicited manuscripts, I have not said much that an editor at any journal might...
View ArticleLaura Ingalls Wilder and Me
At night at the Ingalls Homestead in DeSmet, SD, we can see the pale, translucent arm of the Milky Way divide a sky of a million stars. The small bright point of a satellite zips across to our left...
View ArticleReading (in) Walden
What are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never...
View ArticleImage’s 16 Most-Read of 2016
As I was looking over Image’s website analytics at the end of 2016, I confess that I was overcome with affection and gratitude for you, our online readers. Your attention has painted a picture, and it...
View ArticlePracticing Presence, Part 2
The following two-part post was originally delivered as the 2017 commencement address for Trinity Academy in Portland, Oregon. Read yesterday’s installment here. As you graduates well know, one of the...
View ArticleThe Best in Bedtime Reading
A therapist I once went to for help with insomnia advised me: “Stop reading a novel at bedtime; it stimulates the mind.” When I recounted this to my wise sister who knows me well, she protested: “No! A...
View ArticleReplace STEM with STAR
STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math—hyped now as the crucial core of an educational curriculum. I don’t have anything against science, technology, engineering, or math. They’re...
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