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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...

I don't want to be accused of pulling a bait and switch so let me say from the outset that this post isn't really about climate change,...

I just finished re-reading for the second time a book that I want to commend to you, Falling Upward, by Fr. Richard Rohr. Rohr is a...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a platitude as a statement, especially one expressing moral content that has been used so often as...

I don't know about you but it seems every day i read in one journal or another about some amazing medical breakthrough that promises to...

As we entered the twenties--that is the 2000 and twenties, the term Fake News became a watchword both in political contests and of all...

Artificial Intelligence, and in particular, ChatGPT, have been the subject of considerable attention and some consternation over the past...