A Tale of Three Deaths
Yesterday’s Easter holiday coupled with the upcoming canonization ceremony for two popes this weekend here in Rome took my mind to a similar confluence which took place three Easters ago. […]
Tag Archives: death
Time condensed, stretched, revisited
Some time ago I’ve had a near-death experience. Almost. Kind of. What happened is that I paid a visit to Vancouver, a city Sarah and I have lived in for […]
Gauguin’s Blue
In 1891 Paul Gauguin sailed for Tahiti, in search of a civilization purer than his native France, and in 1897, after a month of feverish work, he completed his most […]
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 […]
Running Toward Life
I was flipping a book at a friend’s house one day – one of those fancy editions that even smell well – when an image took hold of me. It shows two […]
Miracles
Let me briefly share two personal stories with you. I was 3 years old when my first brother was born. A few days later we learned he had a serious […]
Graceland: A Pilgrimage to See the King
Over the holidays I made a pilgrimage to see the King. My pilgrimage, I must confess, was not the most exacting of journeys. I traveled a mere 5 miles by […]
A stroll across the sky
Every now and then I spend an afternoon in the bookstore, savoring pages and dreaming adventurous stories about far-away characters. Recently I came across an unusual book by the French […]
Richard Mourdock, Rape, and God’s Will
Unless you live in a cave, you are probably well aware that the US elections are on next Tuesday, which means that we should have some relief from US politics […]
Questions of Life
I’m not often asked about my views on abortion, but an article on 7th October written by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown for The Independent newspaper* prompted me to post some of my […]
Wondering Fair 