In the movie “How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying” Robert Morse sings about how we are all part of the great big brotherhood of man, and ignoring the inherent sexism of that lyric, he’s right. This is why God got thoroughly upset with me this week when I happened to mention the […]
God and I got into one of those rambling conversations today. The kind that seems to wander from subject to subject following a vein but attaching anything and everything to that vein in an attempt to just keep things moving and to score rhetorical points along the way. It’s the kind of conversation […]
Language is very important to me. At its most basic this is because I want to be understood when I speak or write; at its more specific this is because I’m a writer and therefore language is my tool of choice and it’s always good to master the tools you use a lot. […]
How low can a man go? Well in North America it appears to be 282 feet below sea level. That’s the elevation of Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California.
I mention this because I went there this week. I’ve lived my whole life within a few hundred miles of this famous location and […]
It’s a new year, but it’s also just another day. Time is a continuum. Our lives are not neatly divided into discrete segments, be they the years of the calendar, the acts of a drama, or the moments that make up a dull day.
But we like measurable units. We like to take […]