I sat mesmerized as I watched Caroline and Ted Kennedy symbolically pass the torch of Camelot and all it represents to the loyal opposition, Barak Obama, the other day. I started out as a good...
in the courtyard-- box turtle and hummingbird last year's leaves marking my place in this year's book can we learn to look at what's there without needing more? in the bare bush by the bare tree by...
Sweet Jesus, Anne Applebaum, stereotype much? Of course there were many very famous "sultry" women in the USSR - things did not begin, and end, with Stalin and Liubov Orlova (an actress from the...
This is where this particular story starts: I was listening to my iPod, and I had set it to shuffle. I don’t necessarily like the shuffle function. I resort to it. Some folks enjoy the surprise of...
The big city in nocturne light, still not all cold this winter. Our eyes pick up the melting night, Streaming out time with our river. For all those things that you forgot are rushing back to the...
Having spent our glorious university years in Washington D.C., my friends and I recently decided to reconvene in the U.S. capital for a walk down memory lane. We met at the newest Kimpton Hotel: the...
Did I seriously just write the above headline? Heath Ledger was? He was? People die young all the time. There's nothing new under the sun, and tragic death in one's prime is no exception. In many...
It seems that everyone with wheels in Kyiv went up the Carpathian mountains to celebrate the New Year. Sitting by the fireplace in a log cabin at the ski resort this season would have been something,...
The following is an interview with Justin Rivenbark - artist, and founder of the Rootist Movement. In the interest of full disclosure, Justin and I went to high school together. I was one of the...
We, the Scatterbrains, unfocused, unrestrained, Random in our pattern, dispersed throughout that Critical Mass—that info-terrain, That moves our thought like a manic nymph train— Our station is...
