Stuff in the Basement

I don't know why they get an extra l, but they do--and, well, I think they earn it quite frankly. I'm told gelding llamas are the...

William Styron's first novel, Lie Down in Darkness , is about suicide. I've not read it and probably wouldn't. I'm sur...

Got to finish up.  There were, famously, nineteen candidates, each of them given five minutes. Period. When five minutes were up, m...

Never have I been so close to so many personalities who would, yet that day, be somewhere on national news. Some might well have consider...

I'm getting a pizza, driving into town like I do several times a day, when I glance to the right and see something I never did before...

I didn't know him--couldn't have. He was killed four years before I was born. For years I wouldn't have known his story any m...

I've long had a question about this sanctification business. A friend of mine used to say he wasn't sure there was such a thing be...

You ought to be here.You would say with me, "Let us remain, for it is pleasant here and very appropriate for the erection of a li...

I can't help thinking we're all a little goofy, every last man or woman who can't pass up a museum--or the people who run the...

“For the LORD God is a sun. . .” Psalm 84:11  It’s difficult, at least for me, to think of the sun a...

Whitman, the pose he loved Take a deep breath. This single sentence ambles along for a decade or so. For years past, thousands of peopl...