The madness of being Irish
Here I am reading in horror about the senseless killing of journalist Lyra McKee. And what am I upset about?…
Category: Driving today
Just say thank you.
A friend of mine wrote me the following about my post on Gratitude is a blessing. Just as I was…
Gratitude is a blessing.
I’m grateful for the friends who remind us that the Thanksgiving story is a myth that covers over the genocide…
Are you old enough to remember getting a big Sears Roebuck catalogue in the mail?
This afternoon I went down to the Sears store in Quakerbridge Mall in Lawrence, NJ. I had to return a…
Don’t just do something, stand there.
From tomorrow, Wednesday August 1, 2018, until Sunday August 5, I will be at a silent retreat at the St….
Who knew that the Dàodéjīng had a good pick-up line.
When Anne Mei and I were in Seattle a few weeks ago, we went to the Elliott Bay Book Company….
Hiberniores Hibernis ipsis (Don’t fret the title. You didn’t grow up eating supper with my father.)
As a militant Irish progressive, I suppose I should be making snark over the today’s royal wedding. Even though I…
That’s another day gone.
Waiting in Newark Airport for Anne Mei to clear immigration and customs, I was reading Mihail Sebastian‘s Journal. April 1941,…
Todavia más pinche sapo
Update on the Under Toad. Joe has been in the hospital since last Friday. He had been told he might…
Chinga te, Sapo Debajo
I knew it was going to be a bad weekend when I received an email from my credit card company…