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Kristin Berkey-Abbott

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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