This is one of the most horrific things I have ever seen: a Nazi "baby farm", the preferred method of raising the next gener...

Be it known that there are very few things, or people, in this world that give me hope. I think in 50 years this planet will be so degrad...

  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...