Attention is a form of prayer. —Simone Weil The season of gratitude is upon us. It’s plugged from every pulpit, platform, card, and commercial. It breathes down our necks as […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Relativity
WONDER LAND
The Year of the Rat
Why do we assign such menacing imagery to this critter?
CAMBRIDGE — Two days ago, while I sat on my bed talking on the phone, a rat scrambled across my bedcovers and slipped down between the mattress and the wall. […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
On Evolution
WONDER LAND
The Swan
What does it mean to try to breathe inner peace into others?
I’d just left Chinatown after reclining in a chair for hours inside a state-of-the-art dental school. Each white cubicle featured an oversized nature photo, and all the while I’d been […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Tastes Like
FEAR AND TREMBLING
Haiti, I’m Sorry
The island suffers yet another disaster, and again we witness and rage
Haiti I’m sorry We misunderstood you One day we’ll turn our heads And look inside you. —“Haiti,” David Rudder One night in January 2010, I woke to a severe trembling […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Summer
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Conservation
Juneteenth: A True Story
TEACAKE'S TAKE
The Six Stages of Boredom
EPISTOLARY HISTORY
The Weight of Prejudice
Ellen LeBow responds to a half-century-delayed apology
Hi Ellen, You probably don’t remember me. We attended Camp Amik together back in the summer of 1968 or 1969. I was working as an au pair and you were […]
