I AM A MAN

Climbing “Mount Bond” was a challenge that I always lost but never stopped trying to conquer while growing up. The closest I got in my attempts were smoothly ordering a “Coca-Cola, two cherries, no ice” when going out to restaurants, my own underage version of the famous vodka martini… I know, I know, you only wish you could be THAT cool.

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Return to the Lent calendar. Lent Quotable To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.— Martin Luther…

Busted: Mavis Staples

Lost among the hoopla of the Inauguration of Barack Obama — among the celebrity sightings, the musical guests, and the soaring rhetoric — was the…