For years, I’ve had a special sensitivity to reports of child abuse. This one may give you nightmares for the rest of your life. ...

Three incidents from Sunday 09/18: (1) I caught the racial vibe as soon as she came in the room. (2) In the middle of worship, I looked...

16:03 Thursday 2016-09-08 A case on point. Today as I walked toward the shelter, I contemplated that I am likely to have no smokes during...

I’m posting very little new material these days, but there are hundreds of posts different folks may not have seen the first time...

It’s happened often enough lately that I may as well tell it. When I go into the shower room at the shelter, often enough, unhappiness...

(Reblogged 2023-02-23 .) A toothache can distract you completely. For the past two months, I have now and then, with increasing frequency...

Adapted from a 12/03/15 e-mail to my brothers and some others. Given instability at the shelter where I’ve been for almost five years, I...

Saturday 2015-12-05 14:40. Actually, Leo arrived first. But he got turned away. I left church at 13:40, and got to the bus stop about...

At first I expected this author to affirm the “blame-your-past” orientation of “the prevailing psychological wisdom of our time.” ...

Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake fires Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts I don’t like this. But I am best to “accept the things I cannot...

“Embracing what is,” a four-part series: • As seen on TV: The new, improved hubris • Belief: The unforgivable sin • Rationalism cannot...

In a blog post of July 19, 2014, I declared my ambition to become  th e “Nemesis of the morning glories” in the garden out behind my...

John 9:1-3: 1As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,...

On one occasion sometime between 1983 and 1990 — I can recall where I was living, but not where I was working — I came home from work and...

If you have come across this post, it was most likely via searching on one of the below tags. All pertain to Saturday’s post: About the...

If you have arrived here, you most likely searched on one of the below tags. All pertain to this post: 2) Get rid of the word “deserve.”...