Opera, Cartoons, and Christmas
While we’re on the subject of Christmas music, let me recommend two short musical dramas with Christmas themes. Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night…
While we’re on the subject of Christmas music, let me recommend two short musical dramas with Christmas themes. Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night…
When I heard that Fred Phelps was gravely ill, my immediate visceral reaction was sinful in the extreme. My immediate visceral reaction was: good. I…
I just read a really terrific short story, and now I feel myself bobbing like a cork toward a deep dark cataract of despair. On…
I freaking love Thanksgiving. I love that the holiday invites reflectiveness and gratitude as well as merriment. I love the relative absence of soul-sucking commercialism…
It’s been a year since Hurricane Sandy killed 72 Americans and did $65 billion worth of damage to the East Coast, not to mention the…
When we first met Walter White back in 2008 — and if you’re not already familiar with the AMC drama Breaking Bad, which commenced its…
Nothing thrills quite like finding out that you’ve been acting like a crazy person. I had that experience two summers ago, when I spent eight…
One humid Sunday morning in May, I went with my parents and a dear family friend to church. Towards the end of the service, the…
I don’t pretend to know what “Roll Away Your Stone” is about. Mumford & Sons, the writers and performers of the song, apparently don’t know…
We knew we were in trouble when the shoes floated down the hallway. My brother was the first to notice water leaking through the floor…