I had a different topic in mind for this week’s blog, but I have come back again and again to…
Jennifer L. HolbergDecember 4, 2013
I’ve been daydreaming about the comet Ison a lot the last few days, fascinated by this celestial body that has…
Jessica BrattDecember 2, 2013
Today, guest blogger and advice columnist Pious Petunia intervenes just in time for the holiday season, offering soothing advice for…
Debra RienstraNovember 30, 2013
Our fascination with the Holocaust seems unending, in part because nothing in the world's recent past offers us such…
James C. SchaapNovember 29, 2013
Thanksgiving is a time abounding with associations, where each item on our often copiously supplied dining table connects us to…
Thomas GoodhartNovember 28, 2013
It has been a full and demanding week for me. I was at my office until 9 PM and was…
Jes KastNovember 27, 2013
During this Thanksgiving Day week here in the United States, I am reminded of an anecdote I ran across some…
Scott HoezeeNovember 26, 2013
This fading picture is of my mother and her three sons, from about 1966. It was in the boxes of…
Jeff MunroeNovember 25, 2013
Everyone 55 or older remembers it—remembers where they were when they heard that President Kennedy had been shot. That the…
James BrattNovember 23, 2013
