I have been following Barack Obama's career with interest ever since I first heard of him. Part of that is the Kenya connection, which ...

In the wake of the terrible attacks in Mumbai, the Telegraph has an article in its travel section on twenty places you really shouldn't ...

Every year I read about people getting hurt and killed in stampedes at religious shrines in different places in the world. When I read abou...

Here's today's Saturday Review of Books.

I remember the first time I heard this song, sung by true poet Rich Mullins and written by him with Mitch McVicker, and realized that Jesus ...

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, and his mercy endures for ever. Let all those whom the LORD has redeemed proclaim that he redeemed ...

You Are a Tuna Fish Sandwich Some people just don't have a taste for you. You are highly unusual. And admit it, you've developed som...

Book #49 was The Group , by Mary McCarthy. This book came out in 1963 and was already a bit of a historical novel at that time, since it d...

"This is a story with no clear outcome," I read last night. Which story? Twilight ? No. The story referred to in this article ...

I've been reading Naomi Shihab Nye's collection Fuel and it has many wonderful poems in it (though I find the cover image quite cre...

Back in July Amy had a contest and I won! She said she'd make me a new header, but I fiddle-faddled about and didn't let her know ...

Right after the election I read a comment online by a man who said he couldn't understand why people were getting so excited about the r...

Here is the roundup. I guess this wasn't the week for me to do my own post!

Wednesday was a holiday in Kenya! People were celebrating the election of Barack Obama, whose father was from Kenya, to the office of the P...

Here's today's roundup. Some day I'm going to do a Poetry Friday post of my own again.

I was away from my computer on the first of the month, so I missed the DP Blogs' theme day. And what a theme for me to miss: Books! He...

I've kept pretty quiet about the election so far, and I intend to continue that, but I just can't resist posting two links. Here...

In church on Sunday we sang a well-known hymn, but the words were slightly different from what I had learned. The original text goes like t...

Here's today's Poetry Friday roundup.

A piece in the October 6th New Yorker begins this way: "I have a theory that life is junior high," Tom Brokaw said last week, roam...