Putting Christ back in Christianity
During the holiday season one occasionally hears people say, “We need to put Christ back in Xmas,” bemoaning how our increasingly secular society has drifted … Read more
Lighten the load
In a town where I once lived, there was a small business that offered services such as cleaning up houses and yards, as well as … Read more
Titles and tombstones
Many years ago, I was attending a small reception after a poetry reading. While I remember little of the gathering, I recall that when we … Read more
Squandering life
A friend of mine who is studying Buddhism told me that one of the monks at a monastery where he recently spent several weeks offered … Read more
A three dimensional life
An acquaintance of mine from the gym was telling me recently that he follows a website (what else?) focusing on longevity, what medical research suggests … Read more
The Entropy of Everything
When I was studying mechanical engineering as an undergraduate and graduate student, the subject that interested me most was thermodynamics, a branch of physics and … Read more
American sentences
The American sentence is a poetry form invented by Alan Ginsberg. It is similar to the classic haiku in that it has seventeen syllables. Instead … Read more