Sarah Banks Hartshorne graduated with highest honors from SUNY Purchase yesterday. She majored in literature.      

For all you lapsed church-goers out there, here’s a Sunday morning cyber service. We begin with a tune that began life as a love song, we think, before Bernard of Clairvaux turned it into a hymn and the immortal J.S. Bach set it to music. Since it’s a beautiful tune […]

Travel writers will relate to this photo. Universal European electrical adapters are set up to accept many different inputs, so they tend to be loosey-goosey when it comes down to specific prongs from specific countries. You would think that pressing the adapter in firmly would make it work, but often […]

I just sent a Facebook message to Bill Dwight, whom I have never met, but I was a great fan of his radio show, and I know he is a friend of Rachel Maddow. I’m hoping the Warren campaign can use this information: Dear Bill, Do you know any strategists […]

I’ve managed to make it back safe and sound from Estonia and Lithuania and am comfortably ensconced at my daughter Sarah’s house in Connecticut. Didn’t lose my passport, managed to keep my batteries charged, and made a few brief reports, but I could only scratch the surface. I have more […]

After a seven-hour flight from New York to Helsinki and a 20-minute flight across the Gulf of Finland to Estonia, I’m now comfortably ensconced at the Schlossle Hotel in Talinn, the Estonian capital. The first thing I discovered about my new Estonian friends is that they are savoring their new-found […]

I watched “To Kill a Mockingbird” the other night. What a great book and what a great movie. Gregory Peck, what can you say? One of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, playing one of the greatest characters in the history of literature. But Mary Badham is magnificent […]

I’ve written entries about several poems by Arthur T. Nash, and about his longer fragments. Here are two more of his poems: A Breakfast Poem What? No muffins? and another one: Harvest Time in Days Gone By Abundance A barn dance Ed Amethyst writes in his book, The Power of […]

Aside from how He arrived and how He departed, the teachings of Jesus are uplifting. They show a way out of violence and despair. I do hope you will take the time to watch this video. It takes about half an hour and there’s a long boring introduction, but I […]