I first found out about the new Broadway musical Hamilton during a car ride across Michigan last November. The family was packed in the minivan

O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life is cheap

If the joy of Christmas ever breaks through the frenzy of event-going and present-wrangling and (for me) end-of-semester grading, it happens through music. This year,

It must begin with Zechariah’s silence. Nothing against poor old Zechariah. Who can blame him for asking a decent question? The text tells us that

Grandma Theresa’s heart is extremely weak. No surprise, as it’s been pumping nonstop since before she was born in July of 1912. That’s the year

“And speaking of things overheard, you heard right: if I have to go out, I am going to go out singing.” – Brett Foster I’d

Advice columnist Pious Petunia returns as a guest blogger to face her biggest challenge yet. What wisdom can Miss P offer for the horror that

I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.” — Ps. 122:1 “Football is a Religion and

Lines Composed in an Autumn Reverie, on Visiting the Japanese Garden one Friday Afternoon, October 2015.               Chrysanthemums Huddled