Did the rounds at Goodwill today. I found what I was looking for (a couple of outfits for church), and then did some poking though the chao...

My Silent Type submission is now in the mail, beyond recall. Every time I think about it, I practically break out in a cold sweat. The po...

Observation one: I've probably been listening to too much opera. These ain't exactly cheery, are they? Observation two: poems do ...

I've long been a fan of Peter Kreeft, a Catholic writer, philosopher and professor at Boston College and one of the world's leading ...

For the TV deprived or non-Western, here's the commercial I was referring to. WARNING: it's really, really catchy. "Yippee y...

1. For my follow index card aficionados: I was at Staples today, and as usual went and poked through the odds and ends in the clearance rack...

I didn't write yesterday and haven't written much today because I JuST got braces. And had four teeth out. I've got crowding i...

Well, I did it. I bought a little netbook. I know...it's probably right before the next big thing, and I probably should have waited, ...

I'll of course be over-obsessively researching these topics elsewhere--it's what I do--but I figure some of you smart folks might ha...

Coming from rural Vermont where coffee houses and espresso stands are all but unheard of, and where any coffee drink more involved than co...