On New Year’s Day, Orthodox Christians celebrate the Feast of Saint Basil the Great. (January 1 is his Feast Day.)…
Pious Orthodox Christians all over the world are enjoying one of a very few “fast-free Fridays” today. The usual fast…
On the second day of Christmas, my son’s house is quiet. Grace and Anna are still asleep in their beds,…
“Pops” and I are in Denver, staying at our son, Jason’s house, for Christmas. We’ve reflected a bit on Christmas…
On Wednesday I drove down to Jackson (Mississippi) where I was meeting my oldest son, Jonathan. He had driven up…
A couple of years ago I was inspired by my friend, Corey Mesler’s, annual “Year End List.” Here’s my 2011…
Like the rest of our nation—and especially all mothers—I spent the weekend sharing (in a very small, limited way) the…
This is my third and final post about John Gardner’s book, On Becoming a Novelist. If you missed the first…
What do William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flanner O’Connor, Aldous Huxley, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Butler Yeats, e. e. Cummings, Henry Miller,…