I’d like to talk to you for a few minutes about – relationships. Wait! Wait! Please, don’t go switching over to Pacifica just yet. This isn’t going to be what you think it is, I swear. I recently read in a magazine that the Reverend John Papworth, of the Church of England, last year told […]

You know, I really thought it was a spoof on April Fool’s Day when I looked at the New York Times and there, shyly staring back at me from a posed photograph, was 11-year-old Emily Rosa of Loveland, Colorado. According to the Times, Emily is the youngest person ever to publish a paper in a […]

We’re right in the middle of Lent, and for six weeks, Catholics are abstaining from eating meat on Fridays. When I was a child, Catholics abstained from eating meat every Friday and my dad would pick up fish frys on his way home from work. Batter-dipped fish with wedges of lemon and french fries and […]

Last week, there were stories in the newspaper about the growing number of hate groups in America. The experts found this unusual because unemployment is low, the economy is chugging along and the book of conventional wisdom says a poor economy is required for hate groups to flourish. Unable to account for this turn of […]