Catholic Pundit Wannabe

In the rectory garden at St. Margaret Mary Church in Oakland Last night, I was watching one of the Sherlock Holmes mystery shows from the 19...

I'm reading An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz , which is a collection of essays about the Nobel-prize-winning poet that was...

See below for my letter this morning (5/22/2011) to the Editor of Vanity Fair, where Christopher Hitchens is an editor and regular columnist...

A friend's husband died yesterday at home, the day after a visiting hospice nurse announced that he would die in a day or two. Let'...

The failed marriage of virgin Diana to non-virgin, non-faithful Charles is being used as an example of why people should have sex before the...

The failed marriage of virgin Diana to non-virgin, non-faithful Charles is being used as an example of why people should have sex before the...

M arch 28, 2011: Lilacs and Forsythia, Out of Their Element, Like Me On the green strip between my sidewalk and the street are two lilac bus...

Today I read a blog from a friend whose son dances in a troupe of Morris dancers. They danced yesterday for May Day in a commemoration of p...

At the St. Ann choir’s post-Vespers New Year’s Eve party, after a couple of glasses of sparkling wine, I started telling the few friends sti...

Facebook comment on one of my posts: Abortion is at once a failure of science and society to provide simple, affordable, easy to use, and 10...