Mary Rogers

1 week ago | thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Mary Rogers |Peter Hitchens |Matthew Walther

I have just failed to preserve a beautiful tree from being felled. Worse, I have become complicit in its destruction. I may never be sure that I did the right thing. I hate the cutting down of trees, even though I know that it is sometimes necessary. Trees are the lovely works of God, still living in every city among the ugly works of man. These large friendly vegetables are not just plants, but stores of goodness, peace and calm. I once tried hugging one and got nothing out of it.

1 week ago | thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Peter Hitchens |Mary Rogers |Matthew Walther

I’m bad at games. I always have been. My competitive chess career ended in middle school, when I decided that spending a day of Swiss-system combat at a school library in the lugubrious suburbs of Baltimore was not worth it if I wasn’t going to place. My brother was more naturally gifted, as seemed to be the case in most of these sorts of things, but he was young and undisciplined, so he didn’t pursue it much longer than I did.

2 months ago | thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Matthew Walther |Peter Hitchens |Mary Rogers

Cupboards and attics are dangerous things, as are wardrobes. They lead you to places which are not always very like Narnia. I generally avoid peering into such places in my own house, staying busy, traveling many miles to an office most days of the week, arriving home after dark for most of winter, too tired or otherwise engaged to patrol my own sovereign territory.

May 2, 2024 | northern-insight.co.uk | Mary Rogers

Two North East-based charities committed to championing and developing LGBTQIA+ arts, artists, and communities, has re-launched 'Proud Allies', a new training programme to further increase allyship and inclusion for the LGBTQIA+ community in cultural venues, the hospitality sector and in work places across the UK and internationally.

Mar 18, 2024 | 76092magazine.com | Mary Rogers

Many good books are coming out in the next few weeks, but “The Turtle House” by Fort Worth writer Amanda Churchill dropped in February, so it’s on booksellers’ shelves now. You might want to pick up a copy and meet the author, too. Amanda will be at that cozy little bookshop Monkey and Dog Books at 6 p.m., March 18, 3608 W. 7th St., and she will sign your copy. This is the story of a grandmother and grown granddaughter who must share a bedroom. Grandmother’s house burned.