Choosing the Chief
I might as well admit it, the words “presidential election” cause me to fantasize about moving to a desert island where all the mind-numbing nonsense…
I might as well admit it, the words “presidential election” cause me to fantasize about moving to a desert island where all the mind-numbing nonsense…
Entire wars have been fought over it, British lords beheaded, Spanish mystics incarcerated, principalities set on fire, and now it travels the internet in search…
If you imagine God as a parent, what kind of parent do you imagine? You imagine your parent. My God may be distant and uninvolved,…
Mad as hell…but without hope. There’s a famous scene from the movie Network where newsman Howard Beale who is fed up with the manipulation, lying,…
When it comes to the subject of love everybody is an expert. Your best friend tells you, “Face it he’s not worth it.” You read…
You know the routine pretty well. Getting ready for Thanksgiving means much planning, shopping for a lot of food, and with me there was the…
My friends tell me that in their youth there was a pretty radical rivalry between Catholic school kids and public school kids in “CCD.” I’ll…
When I was about ten years old growing up in Havana, my friends and I made an awesome discovery. We had been rehearsing for the…
What do a vintage Warner Brothers cartoon, a classic war movie, and a caution about how we see ourselves have to do with one another?…
There’s a favorite story in my family that goes something like this… My father-in-law, a Frenchman, had just arrived in Latin America. He made his…