Happy Endings
I was recently listening to a radio interview with a certain person who had been the victim of a terrible crime. The conversation touched on the unlikelihood of “justice” being […]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
God Sucking a Nipple
August was world breastfeeding month, which meant that breastfeeding―and controversies surrounding feeding (especially in public) helped fill the slow, late-summer news cycles. But the stories have continued into the fall. […]
What’s in a Name?
When it comes to judging books by covers, what would happen were we to be judged by the names of fragrances we wear? I can scarcely think of another format […]
A Long (and sometimes boring) Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela’s autobiography A Long Walk to Freedom has just been transposed to what seems to be an epic movie. Epic is indeed a proper adjective for Mandela’s life, who spent […]
Mandela’s Surprising Legacy
Today the world woke up to the news that a great leader no longer is, Nelson Mandela. I post here an extra article to remember him, an excerpt from my […]
Nanna’s Rainbows in the Tears
There is no guarantee how suffering will shape a soul. As C.S. Lewis, the imaginative author of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, once noted, I am not convinced […]
Liberating Freedom
Hey, gotta’ solution: why choose? To anyone surveying our current cultural scene, and its splintered breadth of options political, artistic, religious and social, an easy attitude rises from the pack: […]
