I didn’t get a WordsDay up on Thursday, so I’m doing it today. Sue me. I first picked up The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea because of the title, […]
Review: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
WordsDay: Merchants of Doubt
What do the following things all have in common: tobacco safety and the dangers of secondhand smoke, the Strategic Defense Initiative, acid rain, the ozone hole, global warming, and the recent attacks […]
Nota Bene #112: GOOOLLLLLLLL
“Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.” Who said it?
Jefferson: Self-governance and "the field of knowledge"
Final part in a series “The field of knowledge,” said Thomas Jefferson, “is the common prosperity of all mankind.” Jefferson’s words are inscribed in big bold letters in the entryway of Monticello’s […]
If objectivity is dead, then replace it with subjectivity done well
Be objective. That’s the credo my newsroom presented to me, the young cub, four decades ago. But it did not require much time for me to realize that objectivity was merely an […]
What happened to 'our country'?
No, not the country — we all know that we’ve been stumbling from one crisis to another. Instead, what happened to the “our” in “our country”? In other words (don’t worry: your […]
Jefferson: America's great contradiction
First in a series I sit on a small wooden bench, little more than a plank with legs, really, beneath a tulip poplar whose wide branches umbrella me. The grass around the […]
Lily Dale: Last call
By Jared VanDyke Part five of a five-part series I kept watch while John took a leak among Lily Dale’s sacred trees. “Hey, at least I’m not peeing on The Stump,” said […]
Lily Dale: Getting a read on a reading
By Jared VanDyke Part four of a five-part series Rev. Bonnie White, spiritual artist and medium, pegged my age without asking. “Oh,” said Bonnie. “A digital recorder. How does it work?” With […]
Lily Dale: A spiritualist by any other name…
By Jared VanDyke Part three in a five-part series “(The Church of the Living Spirit is) nothing but bunch of pagan heathens who serve Satan.” — George Mayer, Lily Dale Spiritualist Church […]
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