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Thursday, October 8, 2015 "So long and thanks for all the fish" I've fallen into this trap before. I'm driving down the road channel surfing the radio and I come…

the place i’m from, sometimes we miss the rain for the whole year, and the flowers we planted begin to change their behavior—rebellious, though it’s not our fault it hasn’t…

Nature: Keller Scholl got out of quarantine 13 days ago, and he’s still not feeling 100%. The itchiness — far and away the worst symptom, he says — is mostly…

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The temperature has suddenly dropped. Only four weeks ago we were on a beach in Menorca and now it’s four layers and neoprene gloves. It came out of nowhere. I…

On Saturday afternoon (the coveted 4 pm on the last day of the conference slot) at this year’s ASOR annual meeting, I’m contributing to a work shop that Kevin McGeough…

As dawn breaks, the sun casts its first golden rays over the sea of bluebonnets blanketing Frankford Prairie in Far North Dallas, Texas, heralding a new day in this picturesque…

In seminary class on Monday night, we did a series of writing prompts to help us think about the final story we are going to write/tell.  We have been exploring…

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Today's links Expert agencies and elected legislatures: Legislatures are entitled to their own (political) opinions but not their own facts. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in…

“Greed”…is what people call the desire to earn a decent income when the person with that drive is a woman; in a man, the same thing is called “ambition”.  – …

Kevin Cummins is a British rock music photographer best known for photographs of rock bands and musicians including Ian Curtis, Morrissey, The Stone Roses, Oasis, and Björk. After studying photography…

I featured this song here in 2013, but I decided it was good enough to have a second outing. This is one of those rare times when I preferred a…

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in…

“This'll be our fourth move in ten years,” says Carrie Coon's character with disdain to Jude Law's in the film, THE NEST, to which I found myself responding out loud:…

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 In looking for delicious options for Holiday Side dishes this year I came across this Green Bean Stuffing Casserole Recipe on a site called Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons. …

In re-reading Pilgrims in a Sliding World (my never-published first attempt at a travel book), I’m often struck by how young the narrator seems. This makes perfect sense, of course,…

Here is something I am very excited about: James Hoffmann has finally figured out a way to do what he has been calling — for years — the “decaf project”.…

So, I read a story that put me in kind of a rant-y mood, and now I’m going to share it with you, my lovely readers. Lucky you! Okay, so…