I’ve always thought of myself as intuitive because that is how I score on all personality tests. It is supposed to bless me with…
Margie Haack
Offhanded Joy
Community / Faith / Hospitality / Maturity and Flourishing / Ordinary Life / Safe Place / Work and Rest
Dedicated: To my friends who helped the homeless of Louisiana. To those whose ate mangoes on a beach in Hawaii while their water pipes…
Over the Rainbow
Community / Creation / Maturity and Flourishing / Ordinary Life / Work and Rest
Over The Rainbow Something died in the guts of our house. As it ripened and decayed, Denis searched for it in among the cobwebs…
What the Bleep Do I Know?
Community / Movies / Ordinary Life / Safe Place / Spirituality
Sunday Afternoon “Are you from the Unitarian Church?” A small, dark-haired woman drinking a soy latte and holding a copy of Enlightenment magazine smiled…
Tsunami Crash
Tsunami Crash My husband may have had cause to find a concubine. Of course, I would have ignored the cause and made him my…
Stranger to Me
I don’t think I’ve met you. My name is Margie. I said this as I held out my hand, warm and friendly, to a…
Faster
Creation / Ordinary Life / Safe Place / Work and Rest
Faster [This essay first appeared in the December 1999 issue of Notes From Toad Hall.] December is a bad month for speed and stress.…
Matters of Perspective
Matters of Perspective When we were staying with friends Leslie and John near NYC in October it was, I think, our second day with…
Bible Reading Program for Slackers & Shirkers
For the full interactive PDF of the reading plan click here. January 1st: Resolved to read through the Bible in a year. To pick…
Margie’s 2007 Christmas Gift List
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Christmas 2007 Gift Suggestions from Toad Hall Candy-freak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond (non-fiction) Totally, completely, this book…