Maybe it’s this long winter intersecting with Lent.  Maybe it’s just the personal season I’m in.  Or maybe it’s the combination of bitter cold and lingering

I’ve been laid low by the flu. So today I commend to you two things that you may have missed–and should take a moment to

I very recently had a birthday, and as I move more and more solidly into middle age (despite my internal protestation that I can still—even

At least one corner of the internet (so it must be true!) proclaimed yesterday, January 13th, National Poetry at Work Day.  [NB: This is not

In response to the deadly attack at the offices of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris this week, this image has been circulating

The Tuesday afternoon before Thanksgiving I left the house to run errands—only to spot a large, brown mass huddled in the snow underneath my front

This past summer, as part of an NEH seminar on Dante. I visited the beautiful town of Assisi, home of St. Francis. While we were

So…it’s the classic case of the “computer ate my blog.” Yep, almost done and then wiped out.  I’ll see if I can construct it for