We seem to live in an odd world in which the strange has become normalized.   Shakespeare, just another dead white male. Consider the ...

Readings: Jgs 13:2-7,24-25; Ps 71; Lk 1:5-25 Angel Announces the Birth of Samson Some years ago I found myself in a long discussion a...

For almost three years Diane and I have shared our home with a wonderful little dog named Maddie. Now almost nine years old she is a rescued...

I've been re-reading a lot of Flannery O'Connor lately, both her absolutely perfect fiction and her enlightened and enlightening n...

Every so often I come across information that catches my attention -- like the article I mentioned in yesterday's post about the toilet...

In the event you're trying to decide on a worthwhile charity for a Christmas donation, here's a particularly timely one that you m...

If you're among the handful of regular readers of this blog -- my loyal and holy remnant -- you will know that I often write about certa...

What can one say after hearing of the death of Fidel Castro (90)? I suppose for those members of the Cuban nomenklatura , that little clique...

As we have for the past dozen years, Dear Diane and I spent our Thanksgiving at the Wildwood Soup Kitchen (that's Wildwood, Florida). I...

Well, it's over...and I can't help but add a little I-told-you-so when I point back to my post of July 18 in which I predicted a Tr...