Though I have never loved anything Catholic, I love Pope Francis. I don't think I need to tell you why And though I have never...

BACKSTORY. I got watching The Bandwagon  again last night, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, the incomparable Oscar Levant, etc. Astaire ...

   Now these are interesting, sort of. One of them things you see on Facebook, a link-to rather, while you're scrollin' along t...

I was watching one of those wretched Top Ten YouTube videos, very late at night when my brain is basically on another planet, when I di...

(These are not random reflections, but the ones I woke up with, off the top. I have never been a Merton fan ever since I took a cour...

   Om (ohm) Ma (mah) Ni (nee) Pad (pahd) Me (may) Hum (hum) At the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, ...

I’ve never been much of a Mertonologist, though I know there are entire societies worldwide that exist only to praise his lowly, Tr...

          "Do you realize what a thread we're all hanging by?"

Flowers in her arms, stars in her eyes! Caitlin triumphs once again at her year-end dance recital, but with a difference. She really...

Joni Mitchell – Marcie Marcie in a coat of flowers Steps inside a candy store Reds are sweet and greens are sour Still no letter...