We must learn to be silent. Dom John Main
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Chapter Nine of Peace Like a River — the best novel of the first quarter century of the millennia and yes, I know there are
Tubercular Dude
Did not know this until just now but a few weeks ago was World Tuberculosis Day, which honors the date the TB bacterium was discovered
Words on Silence
Silence is the real. Words lie on top. + To be alone with the Alone He drapes himself in silence Art, too, is the fruit
More Research Necessary
A report from the lab — She’ll talk sometimes, make an endless series of noises with inflections and rhythm and pauses. Or she’ll just scream
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How Long O Overlords?
How many more evangelical celebrity figures have to shoot themselves before the church industry stops putting men and women on stages and the rest of
Sign Posts
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects
Unintelligent Design
Your plan is not working, they say. Ah, but my plan is working, we respond. (I just haven’t fully implemented it, yet … ) But
Closer
Norm’s is the kind of restaurant where across the street there is a long car wash, a 12-unit apartment building, a donut shop open most
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I often vow not to hope, and always break that vow. And the next thing I’m supposed to say is that finally my hopes are
All You Can Eat Adultery
I get all the adultery I want. It’s true. Ask Michele. Thing is, I don’t want any. You may have guessed this, but others may
Trilemma
Bear no malice nor ill-will to any man living, for either the man is good, or naught: if he be good, and I hate him,
Columbo’s Appeal
In researching links for this site, I came across an obituary for Peter Falk, who died June 23, 2011. Learning that it had been the