Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Dec 4, 2009, 10:29 am
I’ve lost heart for a lot of things lately, and among them is writing here. I am going to take a break at least until after the new year. Thanks for reading and commenting, it’s been a p...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 27, 2009, 5:06 pm
A suggestion from Diana Butler Bass at Progressive Revival: We are a fragile lot, we humans, and our history is roiled with fear–and the stupid things that we humans do when we are afraid. And ...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 27, 2009, 4:59 pm
IF you are a little indiscreet when discussing your Christmas shopping plans on the phone with a friend; AND your child is (a) nosy, (b) superb at deductive reasoning, and (c) able to use the Intern...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 26, 2009, 8:11 pm
An unsuspecting customer pulls up to the drive-through window. But instead of a store clerk, up pops two paws, deep brown eyes and the tongue-flapping grin of a happy chocolate Labrador retriever name...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 26, 2009, 4:16 pm
We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing; He chastens and hastens His will to make known. The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing. Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His o...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 10, 2009, 12:13 pm

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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 8, 2009, 4:23 pm
Which, sadly, is not a totally uncommon experience. My daughter is considering joining a new softball league, and we had our first meeting/practice today. Five minutes after the meeting started, one...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 6, 2009, 7:30 pm
This is what guts looks like: As she pulled up to the, the officer, Kimberly Munley, spotted the gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, brandishing a pistol and chasing a wounded soldier outside the buildin...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 6, 2009, 2:51 pm
Via Think Progress: Thousands of protesters came to Capitol Hill yesterday for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) protest against health care reform, capping months of fear-mongering about the dangers ...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 3, 2009, 10:55 pm
So, OK, let’s say that you have encountered someone who, for some reason, just acts on you like sand on a scrape. Everything they say and do is almost unbearably annoying, even when you are try...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 3, 2009, 9:29 am
Can you tell, from the first three paragraphs of this Associated Press story, what it is supposed to be about? Women faced their share of trouble at the Tower of London, including three queens who w...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Nov 2, 2009, 3:17 pm
Students at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, respond to several recent suicides of local teens by producing and wearing T-shirts that read “Talk to Me,” as well as other random a...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 30, 2009, 12:40 pm
Randall Terry of Operation Rescue, inaugurating a “Burn in Hell” contest to “give people a chance to peacefully vent their rage” over abortion provisions in the health care pro...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 30, 2009, 12:26 pm
In keeping with the discussion on editorial humility in this post, here is Meredith Morgan on the humility required of fiction writers.
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 30, 2009, 12:22 pm
A poem for today by Milton at Don’t Eat Alone. I got the same feeling reading this that I got recently when I heard a church leader praying for parents and caretakers. For once, the prayer lac...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 29, 2009, 10:55 am
Veteran copy editor John McIntyre is my new crush, and his blog You Don’t Say is now among my favorites. However, he broke my heart yesterday with the following: … anxious/eager, compar...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 28, 2009, 4:24 pm
Via Think Progress: isn’t he clever! Actually, I take it back. Most actors I know would have more class than this.
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 26, 2009, 12:46 pm
I haven’t read Scott Cairns’ The End of Suffering, though after reading J.C. Schaap’s review I very much want to. I love this bit, as quoted by Schaap: Scott quotes a monk who was ...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 23, 2009, 9:53 pm
I can’t tell whether I admire this or am horrified: a 16-year-old girl, who is a guest at a party my daughter is attending tonight, bicycled four hours through a major metropolitan area to get ...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 22, 2009, 1:16 pm
Via Matt Schur on Facebook, this essay (really an edited sermon) entitled God Does Not Heed My Snotty Opinions about Evangelicals, on Jim Wallis’ “God’s Politics” site (and for...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 20, 2009, 3:59 pm
This is so good that, like virgomusic at Street Prophets, I want to quote the whole thing. But here’s how Bishop Spong’s manifesto begins: I have made a decision. I will no longer debate...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 20, 2009, 2:27 pm
Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), member of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, was asked in an interview by Anne Schroeder Mullins of Politico what that organization does. He replied: We hunt liberal, ...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 19, 2009, 6:12 pm
From an email in response to an order I placed on cdbaby.com: Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow. A tea...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 16, 2009, 3:50 pm
Meredith Morgan on impending cronehood and crone lit. Yesterday, PoochSpouse was complaining about having spent the day in meetings with people who (a) didn’t know what they were talking about,...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 16, 2009, 3:23 pm
This soothed my jangled nerves a bit: US President Barack Obama got a blunt question from an unexpected quarter Thursday — a daring nine-year-old boy who asked “why do people hate you?...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 15, 2009, 10:48 pm
naches (NAKH-ess): feeling of pride in 1: the achievements of one’s children; 2. one’s own doing good by helping someone or some organization (Yiddish נחת nakhes, from Hebrew נחת naá...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 12, 2009, 5:44 pm
Thers at Whiskey Fire has dug up a very amusing 1923 editorial from the Catholic Bulletin, responding to W.B. Yeats’ winning the Nobel prize for literature: It is common knowledge that the line...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 12, 2009, 3:21 pm
I love this photo: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite, 1906.
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 12, 2009, 3:11 pm
Sadly, yes he did. I should have been able to predict that right wingers would make vile racist jokes about Pres. Obama’s winning the Nobel Prize, but somehow their ugliness always catches me b...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 12, 2009, 2:35 pm
A friend and I were recently talking about how some churches’ worship styles are so much more expressive/participative than others. I imagined an out-loud church as I read the latest from RLP a...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 12, 2009, 1:53 pm
On the topic of modern American Christianity and sexuality, particularly GLBT sexuality, Timothy Palmer is far more patient, generous, and hopeful than I: With the exception of the United Church of C...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 12, 2009, 1:33 pm
Makeup for breasts. Mints for vaginas. The first is just, as blogger Jezebella says, stupid; the second could actually be harmful.
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 12, 2009, 12:52 pm
Of all the concerts I’ve attended, I can count on one hand the times when I distinctly felt the ancient bardic magic at work, when the music completely subsumed me.  The first was Heather Alexa...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 12, 2009, 12:02 pm
I look to The Rude Pundit for bracing and unapologetic takes on current events, and he did not disappoint today, taking on the topic of a recent apology offered by the Senate to Native Americans (not ...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 12, 2009, 11:17 am
I’m reading Richard Powers’ fabulous new book Generosity: An Enhancement, and I keep wanting to stop and blog quotes every few pages. Instead, I’ll just say how deeply I’m en...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 12, 2009, 10:46 am
I stopped reading Shakesville/Shakespeare’s Sister some time ago when I grew tired of the constant drama and cult of personality around the blog’s founder, Melissa McEwan. But Echidne poi...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 8, 2009, 6:09 pm
I am going to be gone until Monday, so I thought I’d wish myself a happy blogiversary a bit early: my first post here was October 11, 2007. Many thanks for reading and commenting — you m...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 7, 2009, 11:28 pm
I’m fascinated.
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 6, 2009, 8:28 pm
In an effort to boost enrollment in my son’s elementary school chess club, we staged a “live demonstration” in the hallway outside the lunchroom today. Five hand-picked fifth grader...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 5, 2009, 10:00 pm
Please enjoy #ConservativeBible, a variety of suggestions for inclusions in the recently-announced Conservative Bible Project. Because “liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in ...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 5, 2009, 9:18 pm
From the police blotter of a nearby, not all THAT small, town: A woman in the XXXX block of reported that someone had thrown peanut butter on her front door and porch sometime in the night. She is n...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 5, 2009, 4:07 pm
Warning: Vulgar language alert! I had a conversation this morning with some parents at our elementary school that really set me off. Backstory: When a new school was added to the district this y...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 4, 2009, 11:04 pm
Recently in my travels around the Internet, I saw the phrase “I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.” When I googled for a source a few days later, I was somewh...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 4, 2009, 9:49 pm
I was so happy to see a comment from RickD on a recent post — his blog disappeared a few months ago, and I hadn’t followed up. Turns out he’s been facing some serious health challen...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 2, 2009, 7:36 pm
This story, which I found via a tweet from Shannon Rosa, really struck me. It seems that the blogger’s autistic son, who is attending college, was obliged to offer some criticism of a classmate...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Oct 2, 2009, 5:04 pm
From Truthout: American women each spend an average of $12,000 a year on beauty products and salon grooming; the beauty industry has a lot to lose if we all suddenly become happy with ourselves. And...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Sep 30, 2009, 8:30 pm
It’s a strange thing, being emotionally fragile. It’s especially strange when you usually politely ignore your feelings, when you would generally prefer that emotions — those annoyi...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Sep 30, 2009, 4:39 pm
An acquaintance and his partner have just become parents for the first time after a difficult pregnancy.  I am, of course, completely thrilled for their son’s safe arrival, and the fact that th...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Sep 30, 2009, 4:21 pm
Plan (too many) errands on a day when you’re already feeling fragile. Forget to eat lunch. Expect the process of exchanging the WRONG item delivered from an online store for the RIGHT item fro...
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Satchel P. posted an article on A Different Street - Sep 28, 2009, 1:09 pm
Guinan, how could you? Jezebel looks under the rock that is The View, and reveals Goldberg’s very unsavory opinion of the Roman Polanski case: Whoopi: “I know it wasn’t rape-rape. ...
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