>There’s a thought-provoking article in the June-July issue of First Things by Roger Kimball called “The End of Art.” You…
>If you’re not an Orthodox Christian, what I’m about to say might sound very strange. But every now and then,…
> One of my favorite authors, Thomas Howard, opened his classic book from 1976, Splendor in the Ordinary (later renamed…
>Julia Cameron (The Artists’s Way) says we (creative people) need to schedule an “artist’s date” once a week. That’s when…
> Rick Bragg wrote a great post-Katrina essay called “This Isn’t the Last Dance” (published in My New Orleans) in…
>Tuesday we stopped in Jackson to take my mom to lunch (belated Mother’s Day)… and happily, my two nieces (my…
>When I was eight years old (1959) the U.S. created a pact with Vang Pao and the Hmong people after…
> Tonight my husband asked me, “Do you know what Sunday tomorrow is?” He was referring to the Sundays in…
>Tuesday I watched Barbara Walters on Oprah, talking about her new book/memoir, Audition. Barbara says the title of the book…
>Today is one of two feast days for the Holy Apostle John, the Theologian and Evangelist, in the Orthodox Church.…