- April 27, 2021It has been told that one of the subtle violences committed by modern missionaries in Central America was to force…
- April 14, 2021The Jacaranda is concussively beautiful tree. Seeing one or seeing a host of them together gets your eyes drunk with…
- April 6, 2021There is an awful lot to like about Robert Frost's poem "Birches" but the first three lines will do for…
- March 25, 2021Four thousand years ago in Crete ancient fisherman left huge crushed shell middens of a particular kind of sea snail…
- March 17, 2021I have never surfed. Or ever really tried. I've swam in the ocean. I've body surfed. And in my youth…
- February 23, 2021In the last few days a friend sent me this image above. He thought I would like it. And I…
- February 16, 2021I came across these two prayers for pig hunters recently... 'Dear Lord. May all dogs be blessed with your grace.…
- February 9, 2021The last few days have brought the biggest snowfalls in New York City, where I live, in quite some time…
- January 23, 2021If you live in the northern half of the United States or Canada you will know that the trees there…
- January 13, 2021If I ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I…