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The Book of the Battle Maiden: Commonplace Books
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The Book of the Battle Maiden. Monday, May 12, 2014. Since I started college, I have kept a commonplace book, a collection of passages from my reading and other sources that I have found particularly beautiful or thought-provoking. I am currently working with four different versions of a commonplace book:. My seminary commonplace book, another beautiful hardbound blank book that was a gift from one of my students who has also started his own commonplace book. I keep this book in my office at the semi...
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The Book of the Battle Maiden: Keep Calm and Carry On
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The Book of the Battle Maiden. Thursday, August 15, 2013. Keep Calm and Carry On. Thanks to Alan Jacobs, I've learned the story behind this phrase through the video he posted on his own blog. I heartily recommend his blog, and I concur with all of his comments about the video. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. I am a Benedictine sister from Mount Angel, Oregon. In Old English, Hilda means "Battle Maiden.". Whole Body Barefoot - Katy Bowman.
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The Book of the Battle Maiden: Fighters and Managers
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The Book of the Battle Maiden. Friday, May 15, 2015. By Sister Hilda Kleiman, OSB. He had not fought brilliantly; he had fought wisely and bravely. As I continue reading about boxing, part of the fascination is the other roles and characters involved in addition to the boxers. Boxing may be called the hermit sport, but many other people have a part in making a fight happen. Jeremy Schapp's Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History. For Jim Braddock, of course, ...
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The Book of the Battle Maiden: Pedagogy
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The Book of the Battle Maiden. Below are some books, essays, and articles that have influenced my teaching. The first list is books for the general reader, the second is from the academic field of rhetoric and composition, and the third reflects my philosophy of education. Kidder, Tracy, and Richard Todd. Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction: Stories and Advice from a Lifetime of Writing and Editing. New York: Random House, 2013. Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman. Daring Gr...
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The Book of the Battle Maiden: Fiction
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The Book of the Battle Maiden. If a story possesses the gift of grip, I am ready to forgive all other sins. A novel cannot be really bad, though it may have many faults, if it seizes the reader and holds him spellbound until the last page." - Sir Walter Besant, "My Favorite Novelist and His Best Book," in Huck Finn Among the Critics. The Tie That Binds. Where You Once Belonged. Dreams of my Russian Summers. 2014) - public library. The Tin Woodman of Oz. The Great Gilly Hopkins. The Mill on the Floss.
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The Book of the Battle Maiden: Boxing and Writing with Joyce Carol Oates
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The Book of the Battle Maiden. Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Boxing and Writing with Joyce Carol Oates. By Sister Hilda Kleiman, OSB. Recently I have been looking into boxing, and this has included reading the collection of essays On Boxing. By Joyce Carol Oates. While boxing clearly may be a metaphor for life, for its struggles and triumphs, Oates insists the connection between the two is much closer than that of a metaphor:. When the boxing fan shouts "Kill him! Like all extreme but perishable human actions...
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The Book of the Battle Maiden: Love and Time in the Ring
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The Book of the Battle Maiden. Monday, May 4, 2015. Love and Time in the Ring. By Sister Hilda Kleiman, OSB. If ever you feel your life is accelerating too fast, step into the ring. Last week I finished reading The Boxer's Heart: How I Fell in Love with the Ring. By Kate Sekules. She is a travel and food writer who discovered boxing, trained at Gleason's Gym. And had some professional fights. Along with the documentary Shadow Boxers. Sekules's book is best material I have found thus far on women's boxing.
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The Book of the Battle Maiden: Drama and Poetry
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The Book of the Battle Maiden. I keep reading in drama and poetry so as to develop possibilities for various courses I teach at Mount Angel Seminary and other projects:. By Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton. 1996 - 3 men. Children of a Lesser God. By Mark Medoff. 1980 - 4 women; 2 men. By Henrik Ibsen. 1881 - 3 women; 2 men. By Ed Howard, Joe Sears, and Jaston Williams. 1980 - 2 men with additional possibilities. By Thornton Wilder. 1938 - Ensemble of numerous men and women. My most rece...
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The Book of the Battle Maiden: Primal Living
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The Book of the Battle Maiden. This aspect of my life and reading all started with Mark Sisson's The Primal Blueprint. Dan Barber - The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food. Tovar Cerulli - The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian's Hunt for Sustenance. William Davis - Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health. Paul Greenberg - Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. Denise Minger - Death by Food Pyramid. Eve O Schaub - Year of No Sugar: A Memoir. 2003) - p...
