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At this time of year and particularly in the wake of our recent election, we are in the midst of a transition, though to what is the...

Help me understand. The gap between our nation's wealthiest and poorest is at an extreme. Many cannot afford to own a home, put gas in...

In the wake of the election, I've been reading quite a few comments--or perhaps I should describe them as laments regarding the outcome....

It seems that folks of all political stripes are yearning these days for a past that viewed through the selective filter of memory was...

As I suspect may be the case for many of you, the volume of email and texts I've been receiving for the past several months is staggering....

A friend of mine just celebrated his 94th Birthday. That in itself is sufficiently rare to warrant comment but it isn't the entire story....

Shakespeare's Hamlet, the source of the quote above seems prophetic and deeply disturbed by the prospect of dreaming, suggesting latent...

In Proust's iconic novel, A la Recherche Du Temps Perdu , the taste of a madeleine is the triggering memory that recalls a childhood the...

On a recent trip to Europe, I was reminded again of the power and pervasive presence of the Roman Empire. For more than 1,000 years the...

Whenever I see an offer that begins with the claim that something is free, my instant reaction is, sad to say, a cynical one. What's the...

In the immediate aftermath of the second world war, hundreds of Japanese marines, soldiers and sailors were stranded on one of the many...

Every once in a long while I have one of those nights--you know the kind, endless, dark and filled with intrusive but fleeting thoughts...

The other day I came across a post from a young man laying out a bill of particulars accusing his parents of a playing favorites with his...

Have you ever taken a Rorscharch test? If you have, you know that tests such as this are used to evaluate personality traits, and help...

I imagine that you have watched at least one program about nature at some point and I hope it was one featuring David Attenborough. I am...

The other day an old favorite of mine came up on my playlist. It was a Joan Baez song, written by the legendary folk singer Phil Ohcs,...

If you were expecting a post in lyrical praise of some confection, or a recitation regarding vast oceans of sand (I always confused the...

A few weeks back I wrote about Fr. Richard Rohr's book, Falling Upward . One of the many insightful observations Rohr makes about what...

I believe I can say without fear of contradiction that every single person reading this post has been subjected to one or all of the...

When companies refer me to customer service these days I get a cold chill running down my spine, and an existential dread running through...