Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Early Morning Music and the Writing Tasks of the Day
Home Again after Weather Bogged Down Travels
Mountain Bound after a Good Visit in Williamsburg
What Time Is It? What Season Is It?
Of Cars and Headlights and Petrochemicals and Politics
Spring Break Travels
A Poem for International Women's Day
Spring Weather and Spring Break and Villanelles
Generational Milestones
Poetry and Current Events
Eclipses and Other Portents
No AWP For Me
Being Born Again: Sermon Revisions in the Midst of News Reports
The First Fish Fry of the Season
Of Lab Results and Lectures
What We Watched When We Didn't Watch the State of the Union Address
States of Union, States of Disunion
Finally Seeing "Frankenstein"
Snow in the Higher Elevations and a Week-end Update
Debates and Structured Class Conversations: The "Goblin Market" Edition
Poetry Inspirations: First Troy, Second Troy, Invasion Anniversaries
The Morning after the Ash Wednesday Before
Trolls in the Forest
Tuesday Scraps: Texting Mix-ups and Passings and Other Goblins
Writing Life, Olympian Life
A Typical Thursday, a Good Thursday: Seminary in the Morning, Teaching in the Afternoon
Using the Story of the Wise Men to Teach Allusion
South Florida Friend, Gone Too Soon
Teaching from the Buddhist Monks Who Are Walking for Peace
First In-Person Monday of Spring Term
Sermons, for Youth and for Adults
Winter Weather and Writing Prompts
Broken Wiper Motor, Broken Newspaper
Another Week, Another Tuesday Snow Day
The Downside of a Snow Day Cancellation
Snow Day: The Fluffy Snow Variety
Living the Dream!
Yearly Intentions Report: The Poem Revision Edition
New Bishops, New Weather Reports
Snow Days Come to an End
Snow Days and School Days and Anxiety
Snow Days, Grown Up Style
Hurricane Prep, Winter Storm Prep
Epiphany Stars and Haiku
More on Storm Prep, More on Classroom Collaging
A Storm's Coming Which Triggers a Quest
Tuesday Teaching Successes: Collaging and Biblical Storytelling
Travel Plans and Weather
Fragments--So Fragmented that I'm Posting Late
Bingo Cards and Whiteboards: A Good First Week
Crystalline Shards and Fragments
Report from the First Day of Class
Prayers for Healthy Choices
Snow that Sticks Around (but not Yesterday)
Border or No Border? (A Quilt Question, not a Geopolitical Question)
Quilting Timelines
First Day Back: Workshops and Hot Meals
A Few More Snippets from Winter Break
Last Day of Winter Break
A Poem for Epiphany
Houses of Dynamite
Snippets from the Last Holiday Week Away
Clear Margins
Watching "Chariots of Fire" on New Years Day
Intentions for 2026
A Look Back: 2025
Going to a Magic Show
Reading in the Waning Days of 2025
Slaughter of Innocents and Non-Compliance with Tyrants
Melanoma Removal Report
Christmas Morning, Christmas Eve Report, and Sermon Recording
Christmas Eve Morning 2025
Advent Labyrinth and Dreams of Deans and Fiber Liturgies
Christmas Pageants, Modern and Medieval
Winter Solstice Fragments
Melanoma Consult
Mid-Winter Break Report
Visits with Friends, from Long Ago and More Recent
Cold Weather, Cozy Evenings, and the Relentless Drip of Bad News
Winter Weather and Sunday Drives
The Feast Day of Santa Lucia
Teaching Insights from a Great Semester
Returning to Bethlehem Again
Publication Ponderings in Mid-December
Noah's Wife Reads the Realtor.com Listings
Week-End Update: Cooking and Other Types of Mood Management
The Feast Day of Saint Nicholas
Reading: Books, Skin, Weather Forecasts
Moonset and Midwinters
First Week of December Thoughts on Year End Lists and More
Reading Day, 2025
Balancing Acts in the Time to Come
Thanksgiving History in Fabric Scraps
Thanksgiving Morning
Gratitude Tuesday: British Lit, Teaching, and the Larger Perspective
Book Buyers on Campus
Homespun and Spinning of All Sorts
Various Patricia Smiths and Various Strands of a Life
Scraps Before Thanksgiving
Watching "Waiting for Godot" Again, with a New Generation of Brit Lit Students
Making Applesauce, Making Poems
Making Applesauce, Losing Time
A Day that Is Less Idyllic: Active Shooter Training and Travel Delays
In Praise of Untidy Women: Teaching "Mrs. Dalloway"
Quilt Camp Homily: the Prophetess Anna and Our Quilting/Spiritual Life
Armistice Day with Monastic Poem
Hinge Points of November
Quilt Camp Ends
Quilt Camp Begins
Gratitudes Before the Start of Quilt Camp
Rejections to Treasure
A Wonderful All Saints Sunday
All Saints Sunday, 2025, the Prep Work Edition
The Day After Halloween
Halloween 2025
"Frankenstein" in the English Composition Classroom
Environmental Resilience in Our Science and Our Literature (and Psyches)
Watching "Thriller" in the Composition Classroom
Autumn Music, Autumn Writing
Apples in the Composition Classroom
Thinking about AI and Machine Learning and the Protestant Reformation on the Feast Day of Saint James
Two Rough Drafts Composed of Gingerbread
The Week Where A Clone of Myself Would Be Nice
Week-end Update: Chili Fest and Hymn Festival
Autumn Passings, Autumn Sketching, Autumn Cooking
Pedagogy from the Pumpkin Patch
Short Story Publication
Erasure Poems, Mary Shelley, and a Creative Writing Class
Peace in Our Time: Hopes and Hesitations
Explorations and the Imagery of Those Interactions
The Lessons of Columbus for the Creative Life
Saturday Fragments with "The Stand"
Peace in the Middle East?
Spring Schedule Wrinkles and the Ironing
Drawing Dahlias
A Different Kind of Grieving: Hurricanes and Deconsecration
Second Day of Fall Break: Cooking with Recipes
First Day of Fall Break in Variations of Fabric
Fall Break Begins
Surrealistic Poem Generating in Creative Writing Class
Teaching Anxiety and Gratitude
Keeping Our Lamps Trimmed and Burning
A Tale of Two Writing Workshops
Hurricane Helene, One Year Later
You Are the Tree, You Are the Board, You Are the Sawmill Blade
Reunion, with Tea
Perfect September Weather, with Brewery and Haiku-Like Creation
Autumn Arrives with Summery Temperatures and Pumpkins
Eighth Covid Shot, Last Covid Shot?
The Autumn of Life
When You're a Jet
Hildegard of Bingen's Visions and Our Own
Poems and Chocolates and U2 on a September Tuesday Morning
Sunday Update: Satisfying Sermons and Disappointing Pizza
No Sermon Sunday
Breakfasting on Pumpkin Bread
Mary Shelley as Sullen Adolescent and Building Our Own Odes
Osama's Sunflowers: A Poem for September 11
Scraps of Time and Time to Write
Hurricane Irma Anniversary
Week-end Update: Crafts and Worship