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Big Lies
Yet another mass shooting, this time at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Yet...
Keep the Home Fires Burning
I have been a bit under the weather this last week – so I have had a case of the...
The Shape of Things to Come
I was planning to launch an end-of-year fundraising drive this week but I’m holding...
America’s Macbeth Moment
Every person craves transcendent meaning in their life. For those whose hope is in...
Rocking the Boogie-Woogie Flu
The pressure is mounting anew to force people to get the Covid jab to keep their...
A Couple of Things…
I started a piece a few days ago on some hard realities facing us that I thought was...
Twigs
“As the twig is bent, so grows the tree” – old Oxford proverb A few weeks ago, a...
Injustice For All
The purpose of a justice system is…justice. It seems a downright quaint notion in a...
Remembrance of Things Past; Anticipation of Things to Come
It was a contemplative and somewhat melancholy Father’s Day for me last week. My Dad...
Gangster Government Gears Up For War
I took the above picture of Fern Springs in Yosemite 11 years ago in the course of my...
The Future Is What, Under God, We Make of It
(I have been working on a piece directed to our orthodox Catholic Bishops. It is a...
Scenes Through The Looking Glass, Part II
Modern society is characterized by malicious absurdity run by disreputable lowlifes...
Milk Bottles
Thank you to everyone who was so kind to my family and me as we went through our...
Crises and Hope
‘Twas the week before voting and all through the house, All the creatures were...
Fire in the Hole
I was planning to hit the ground running a week ago today, after having rested up for...
Building From the Ground Up
I am working on a complex piece right now – and have been in the woods and mountains...
The Rules Are Changing
In his influential Revolutionary War pamphlet, “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine argued...
On Dangerous Ground
I was involved in an auto accident Sunday that could have been – and possibly should...
Our Hope Is In God
A Priest contacted me last week to let me know that the prior week a dear family...
