
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
“Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.” Who said it?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]