The Compass Rose

Many people prefer to believe that the world is entering a post-apocalyptic stage, that the peoples of the earth will soon co-exist in harm...

This morning I had a fantasy meditation about the crisis at our southern border with Mexico.  It was an exaggerated version of the sort o...

Time and duration. Increments. Segments. Blocks. Threads. We tend to think of time in terms of the astronomical events that govern our ...

The current heated debate about security at the U.S.-Mexican border offers few new ideas or analyses.  Despite fluctuations in the numb...

Regarding the smokey air from the so-called "Camp Fire" forest fire in Northern California in November 2018.  Commentary:  Th...

Bill Berkson's Since When [Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2018, 262pp.], as an analogue of his life, seems pretty much right...

Willie McCovey died yesterday at age 80. As with all such events, it was another reminder of time passing.  Willie's death wa...